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Whipscars And Tattoos The Last Of The Mohicans Mobydick And The Maori

Whipscars And Tattoos The Last Of The Mohicans Mobydick And The Maori

Literary Fiction

Geoffrey Sanborn

Authors: Geoffrey Sanborn
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Through careful historical research, Geoffrey Sanborn reveals how both James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop the iconic characters they created in The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick.