Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori

by Geoffrey Sanborn (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $116.78

  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.