Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition - A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian 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.

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• Authors: Theodora Kroeber, Theodora/ Kroeber Kroeber, Kroeber Theodora, Kroeber/Kroeber
• Assisted by: Lewis Gannett (Editor), Karl Kroeber (Editor), Theodora Kroeber (Editor), Lewis Gannett (Foreword), Gannett Lewis (Foreword), Karl Kroeber (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2011
• EAN: 9780520271470
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27147-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 202 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, California, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Indigenous Peoples, Biography: historical, political and military, Relating to Native American people, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous