Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last Wild Indian (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393326987)

After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death, of tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi.

Author: Orin Starn
ISBN-10: 0393326985
ISBN-13: 9780393326987
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2005
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d