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Through careful historical research, Geoffrey Sanborn reveals how both James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop the iconic characters they created in The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick.

Produktbeschreibung
Through careful historical research, Geoffrey Sanborn reveals how both James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop the iconic characters they created in The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick.
Autorenporträt
Geoffrey Sanborn is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College. He is the author of Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader (Duke UP 1998) and editor of the New Riverside Edition of Herman Melville's Typee (2003).