The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has captivated readers. Now recent advances in technology make it possible to return to print the 1976 deluxe edition, filled with plates and historic photographs that enhance Ishi's story and bring it to life. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified ...
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The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has captivated readers. Now recent advances in technology make it possible to return to print the 1976 deluxe edition, filled with plates and historic photographs that enhance Ishi's story and bring it to life. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as a Yahi 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 Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be written and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was a product of both her era and her special personal insight and empathy.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Good. Book Small quarto, softcover. Biography of the last wild Indian in North America. 262pp. Deluxe edition. Foreword-Karl Kroeber. Notes on endpaper, two or three paragraphs high-lighted else VG in beige and B & W pictorial wraps. Many moons later those living in distant worlds could read and know how their people spoke and lived and who were their heroes.
"Ishi in Two Worlds" is a bitter-sweet account of a man's journey from the stone age to civilization so he would not die alone. He faces his new world with a determination to accept what he cannot change. In a time when most people would view him as a circus sideshow, he had the great fortune to come under the protection, and friendship, of Professor Kroeber and his associates. Many terms and descriptions are outdated as a product of the time period, but for the most part Mrs. Kroeber has presented Ishi's story in a dignified manner.
