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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: captain and "the cannibal"
    sub title: an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage
  name:
    name part: Fairhead, James
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captive's perspective as from the American's. Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a 'cannibal' in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the East Coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the south Pacifi, the captain hoping to establish trade with Dako's assistance and Dako seizing his only chance to return home to his unmapped island. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell's ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako's life and the two men's infusion into American literature, Dako inspired Melville's Queequeg, for example. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.
  table of contents: The Island -- The Captain -- At Sea -- The "Cannibal Show" -- The Tour -- The Books -- Dako, God, and Humanity -- Fame -- Return to Dako's Island -- Missing -- Tables Turned -- Sydney Respite -- Dako's Dominion -- Shipwreck -- Morrell Adrift -- Father and Son -- The Lost Colony -- Epilogue : The "Cannibal" and the Captain.
  note: James Fairhead.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-pp---
    geographic code: n-us-ct
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Morrell, Benjamin
      name part: 1795-1839
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Morrell, Benjamin
      name part: 1795-1839
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dako
  subject:
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    topic: Discovery and exploration
  subject:
    topic: Ship captains
    geographic: Connecticut
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Kidnapping
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Sideshows
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
  classification: DU740.6 .F35 2015
  classification: 995.7/1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New directions in narrative history
  identifier: 9780300198775 (hardback)
  identifier: 0300198779 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014029610
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141010
    record change date: 20151106041154.0
    record identifier: in00003521269