- Publisher: History Press
- Year: 2019
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 256pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 205x133mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9780750990844
- Product code: 517403
Cannibals and Carnage
Thrilling Tales of the Sea: Volume One
Graham Faiella New Hardback Illustrated
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Newspaper readers of the 19th century were regularly regaled with lurid reports of cannibalism in far-off places, from the South Pacific to Patagonia. Drawn from contemporary accounts, these stories tell of missionaries eaten by cannibals and – even more troubling to European sensibilities – famished sailors driven to devour the flesh of their shipmates in what was called ‘the custom of the sea’.
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In the nineteenth century true stories of cannibal tribes massacring white traders (and vice versa) and missionaries fed the morbid appetites of Europeans, North Americans and colonials. Accounts of cannibalism committed by seafarers on their dead shipmates quickened the pulses of landfolk even more, and pricked their moral disquiet. Acts of desperate men committing unspeakable atrocities. The warring frenzy of cannibal headhunters and their gruesome feasting. Such was the stuff of real-life 'sixpenny romances', rich in human butchery and garnished with treachery and terror. The more atrocious the at rocities, the more exotic the locations; the more sensational the narratives, the greater was the thrall of these thrilling tales of the sea.
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Newspaper readers of the 19th century were regularly regaled with lurid reports of cannibalism in far-off places, from the South Pacific to Patagonia. Drawn from contemporary accounts, these stories tell of missionaries eaten by cannibals and – even more troubling to European sensibilities – famished sailors driven to devour the flesh of their shipmates in what was called ‘the custom of the sea’.
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