Surrounded by Headhunters
Author : Sandra Klaus
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781559760768
Author : Sandra Klaus
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781559760768
Author : Robert Lyman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 030682468X
Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, an OSS operative who was also a Soviet double agent, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people aboard the doomed aircraft survived-it remains the largest civilian evacuation of an aircraft by parachute. But they fell from the frying pan into the fire. Disentangling themselves from their parachutes, the shocked survivors discovered that they had arrived in wild country dominated by a tribe with a special reason to hate white men. The Nagas were notorious headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice, their specialty being the removal of enemy heads. Japanese soldiers lay close by, too, with their own brand of hatred for Americans. Among the Headhunters tells-for the first time-the incredible true story of the adventures of these men among the Naga warriors, their sustenance from the air by the USAAF, and their ultimate rescue. It is also a story of two very different worlds colliding-young Americans, exuberant apostles of their country's vast industrial democracy, coming face-to-face with the Naga, an ancient tribe determined to preserve its local power based on headhunting and slaving.
Author : Ken Nash
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164628741X
The book Ken's Shorts is both entertaining and edifying as it is a series of short stories and documentaries—and perhaps a tad irreverent, judging by its title and cover design—that seems to strike a perfect balance between funny and entertaining with educational.
Author : J. Maarten Troost
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592408737
Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost’s return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, Troost follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Kiribati, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another. Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way.
Author : Ian Armit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521877563
This book examines the widespread evidence for the removal, curation and display of the human head in Iron Age Europe.
Author : J. Maarten Troost
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592408737
Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost’s return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, Troost follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Kiribati, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another. Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way.
Author : Claire Prentice
Publisher : New Harvest
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544262287
Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.
Author : John King
Publisher : Random House
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448112583
Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. In this lager-soaked league, the most that women can offer a man is 4 points - unless, that is, she leaves her handbag unattended... From its base in the asset-stripped, emotionally castrated 90s, Headhunters shows the dreams of The Sex Division members breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion. A missing brother, prophetic visions, a love affair, and tit-for-tat confrontation draw the characters out into the open - revealing the men behind the machismo, their need for mutual respect, and their recognition of the hidden or suppressed affinities.
Author : Catholic University of America
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Charles H. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Missions
ISBN :