Ishi in Two Worlds A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

Name: Ishi in Two Worlds A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
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ISBN: 9780520229402

ISBN-10: 0520229401

ISBN-13: 9780520229402

Edition: 1961

Authors: Theodora Kroeber, Karl Kroeber, Lewis Gannett

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The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1961
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English