Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori

by Geoffrey Sanborn

Book Overview

In this original study, Geoffrey Sanborn presents a fresh interpretation of the villanous Magua in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and of the dignified harpooner Queequeg in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). Through careful historical research, Sanborn has determined that both authors relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop their iconic characters. Cooper drew...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199751692
• ISBN13: 9780199751693
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"