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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Route Book of Devon: a Guide for the Stranger and the Tourist to the Towns, Watering Places, and Other Interesting Localities of this County. With a Route Map of the Roads and Plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse
Author: The Route Book of Devon
Author: The Route Book of Devon: a Guide for the Stranger and the Tourist to the Towns, Watering Places, and Other Interesting Localities of this County. With a Route Map of the Roads and Plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse
Author: The Route Book of Devon: a guide for the stranger and the tourist to the towns, watering places, and other interesting localities of this county. With a route map of the roads and plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse
Author: Adams's Pocket Descriptive Guide to the Lake District of Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland ... Embellished with a ... Map, and Illustrative Engravings by F. G. Delamotte
Author: Edward Litt Leman BLANCHARDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Savage
Author: Nick HazlewoodPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466880287
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit. In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and made a strong impression on many of the major figures in Britain, eventually becoming a celebrity. Charles Darwin himself befriended the Fuegian and later wrote about their time together on The Beagle, voyaging back to the southern tip of South America. Their friendship influenced one of the most important and controversial works of the century, On the Origin of Species. Upon his return to Tierra del Fuego, Jemmy found that life could never be the same for him there. The Beagle's captain deposited the young man on a lonely, windswept shore and charged him with the tasks of "civilizing" his people and bringing God to his homeland. At first ostracized and attacked by other Fuegians, Jemmy later became the target of zealous and ambitious missionaries. Thirty years after his return, a missionary schooner in Tierra del Fuego was attacked, with nearly everyone on board killed, and Button himself was accused of leading the massacre. In Nick Hazlewood's Savage, Button's life story illustrates how the lofty ideals of imperialism often resulted in appalling consequences. Thoroughly researched and remarkably well written, this fascinating and poignant story is ultimately about survival, revenge, murder, and the destruction of a whole race of people, blurring the boundaries of civilization and savagery.
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Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenæum
Author: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977292
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description