The captain and "the cannibal" : an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage /

"Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shoc...

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Main Author:	Fairhead, James, 1962- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015 New Haven : [2015] New Haven [Connecticut] : [2015]
Series:	New directions in narrative history
Subjects:	Dako Morrell, Benjamin, > 1795-1839 Morrell, Benjamin, > 1795-1839 > Travel > Papua New Guinea 1800-1899 19th century First contact (Anthropology) > Papua New Guinea > History > 19th century First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > Papua New Guinea > History > 19th century Indigenous peoples > Papua New Guinea > Biography Kidnapping > Papua New Guinea > History > 19th century Ship captains > Connecticut > Biography Sideshows > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Adventurers & Explorers BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical Discoveries in geography First contact (Anthropology) First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners HISTORY / Social History HISTORY / United States / 19th Century HISTORY > Social History HISTORY > United States > 19th Century History Indigenous peoples Kidnapping Ship captains Sideshows Travel Papua New Guinea > Description and travel Papua New Guinea > Discovery and exploration Connecticut New York (State) > New York Papua New Guinea Biographies Biography

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