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Theodora Kroeber
Ishi in Two Worlds
A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
$50.00, £29.95 hardcover
978-0-520-00674-4
Available Now
262 pages, 5-1/4 x 8 inches, 32 black-and-white photographs
June 1961, Only available in Include US and Territories, Canada, Philippines
Categories: Anthropology; Native American Ethnicity; Cultural Anthropology
June 1961, Only available in Include US and Territories, Canada, Philippines
Categories: Anthropology; Native American Ethnicity; Cultural Anthropology
"One of the most moving, tragic and ultimately triumphant human stories I have ever read."—Los Angeles Times
"A most remarkable biography. . . . It is also a real source book of central California ethnology and a detailed record of this example of acculturation which is in most respects without equal in today's anthropological literature."—American Anthropologist
"A book that all Americans should read."—New York Times
"A most remarkable biography. . . . It is also a real source book of central California ethnology and a detailed record of this example of acculturation which is in most respects without equal in today's anthropological literature."—American Anthropologist
"A book that all Americans should read."—New York Times
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.
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.
FROM THE FOREWORD BY LEWIS GANNETT:
The warmth and understanding with which Ishi's story is told give this book its special quality. It can, I think, without exaggeration, be called one of the great American stories, a contribution not only to our history but to our literature.
The warmth and understanding with which Ishi's story is told give this book its special quality. It can, I think, without exaggeration, be called one of the great American stories, a contribution not only to our history but to our literature.
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, by Theodora Kroeber (paperback edition of this book)
Ishi in Two Worlds, Deluxe Illustrated Edition, by Theodora Kroeber (hardcover)
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, Deluxe illustrated edition in large format, by Theodora Kroeber (paperback)
Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History, by Robert F. Heizer and Theodora Kroeber, editors
Ishi in Two Worlds, Deluxe Illustrated Edition, by Theodora Kroeber (hardcover)
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, Deluxe illustrated edition in large format, by Theodora Kroeber (paperback)
Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History, by Robert F. Heizer and Theodora Kroeber, editors