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Cannibals : Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea by Cummins, Joseph is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>In Cannibals, Joseph S. Cummins has assembled some of the most dramatic and controversial incidents of cannibalism in history. He draws from a powerful account of the disastrous Donner party expedition in the snows of the Sierra Nevada in 1847; from Nathaniel Philbrick's bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, about the wreck of the whaleship Essex in the South Pacific; and from Piers Paul Read's classic Alive, which relates the tragic aftermath of a 1972 Uruguayan airliner crash in the high Andes.<br> But Cummins also brings together little-known and equally shocking tales-how marauding gangs of cannibals, circa 1150 A.D., may have destroyed a flourishing southwestern civilization; how modern forensic evidence revealed the horrifying truth behind the vanished 1845 expedition of Arctic explorer John Franklin; how the Japanese practiced ritual cannibalism on Allied soldiers during World War II; and much more.<br> Cannibals is both a dramatic document and a tool to learn more about this mysterious and little-understood phenomenon.</p>
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cummins, Joseph
- Publisher
- The Lyons Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781585742172
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Historical Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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