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Whipscars and tattoos : The last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori / Geoffrey Sanborn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanborn, Geoffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Māori (New Zealand people) in literature.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Mohicans--Sources.
- Cooper, James Fenimore.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851--Characters--Magua.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851--Knowledge--New Zealand.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick--Sources.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Characters--Queequeg.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Knowledge--New Zealand.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: grand, ungodly, godlike men
- Te Aara's scars
- Cooper's death song
- Te Pehi Kupe's Moko
- Melville's furious life
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613057792
- 9780199985760
- 0199985766
- 9780199837946
- 0199837945
- 9781283057790
- 1283057794
- OCLC:
- 922970270
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