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Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori Sanborn, Geoffrey (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Bard College)
Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori
Sanborn, Geoffrey (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Bard College)
Through careful historical research, Geoffrey Sanborn reveals how James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop their iconic characters in The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick.
208 pages, 10 illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 1, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199985760 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 139 × 16 mm · 204 g |
| Language | English |