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Sign up todayIshi in Two Worlds
A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
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Lorna Raver
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Length
10 hours 47 minutes
Language
English
The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. Finally identified as a Yahi 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.
Theodora Kroeber (1897–1979), wife of Alfred Louis Kroeber, is also the author of The Inland Whale and coeditor of Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History.
Lorna Raver, named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year, has received numerous Audie nominations and AudioFile Earphones Awards. An experienced stage actress, she has also guest-starred on many top television series and starred in director Sam Raimi’s film Drag Me to Hell. Among her many Blackstone titles are The Age of Innocence, Up from Orchard Street, The Lodger, Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker, and Diamond Ruby.
Reviews
“This magnificent biography of the lone survivor of the Yahi Indians shows man at his best.”
“Ishi’s story is one of the most remarkable in the annals of Indians on this continent, and Mrs. Kroeber…tells it with an integrity and insight that raises it to the level of history that is also art.”
“One of the most moving, tragic, and ultimately triumphant human stories I have ever read…If you read no other book this year, you must read this one.”
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