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Author Fairhead, James, 1962-, author.
Title The captain and "the cannibal" : an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage / James Fairhead.
Cover Title Captain & "the cannibal"
Publication Info New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2015.


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Descript xi, 377 pages : illustrations, (black and whtie) maps ; 24 cm
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Contents Prologue -- 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.
ISBN 9780300198775 (hbk.)
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Author Fairhead, James, 1962-, author.
Series New directions in narrative history
New directions in narrative history.
Subject Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Travel -- Papua New Guinea.
Dako -- Biography.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Biography.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Travel.
Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel.
Papua New Guinea -- Discovery and exploration.
Ship captains -- Connecticut -- Biography.
Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea -- Biography.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 19th century.
Kidnapping -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 19th century.
Sideshows -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Cover Title Captain & "the cannibal"
Descript xi, 377 pages : illustrations, (black and whtie) maps ; 24 cm
Content cartographic item
still image
text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Prologue -- 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.
ISBN 9780300198775 (hbk.)
Author Fairhead, James, 1962-, author.
Series New directions in narrative history
New directions in narrative history.
Subject Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Travel -- Papua New Guinea.
Dako -- Biography.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Biography.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Travel.
Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel.
Papua New Guinea -- Discovery and exploration.
Ship captains -- Connecticut -- Biography.
Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea -- Biography.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 19th century.
Kidnapping -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 19th century.
Sideshows -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Cover Title Captain & "the cannibal"
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  DU 740.6 F1  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Travel -- Papua New Guinea.
Dako -- Biography.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Biography.
Morrell, Benjamin, 1795-1839 -- Travel.
Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel.
Papua New Guinea -- Discovery and exploration.
Ship captains -- Connecticut -- Biography.
Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea -- Biography.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 19th century.
Kidnapping -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 19th century.
Sideshows -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Descript xi, 377 pages : illustrations, (black and whtie) maps ; 24 cm
Content cartographic item
still image
text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Prologue -- 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.
ISBN 9780300198775 (hbk.)

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