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pp. ix 370. “Montgomery’s great-grandfather was the Right Reverend Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, a missionary bishop who had lived on the islands of Melanesia. The author discovered a book that the bishop had left, which contained faded monotones of black men clutching spears and photographs of bare-chested women. The book contained an account of a journey made more than a century ago, cataloguing the horrors of perilous missionary work. Dozens of traders and evangelists had been murdered on the shores of the islands that were scattered across 1,200 miles of ocean between Fiji and New Guinea. The unluckiest ones were cooked and eaten. Montgomery went to these islands to probe the bond between faith and magic. He found that the inhabitants had infused Christianity with the sorcery and shark spirits of their ancestors to invent a pantheon of new gods. The author’s documentation and analyses of these people and their world is a haunting reading experience.”
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| ISBN | 006076516X | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780060765163 | |
| Number of pages | 370 | |
| Original Title | The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific | |
| Published Date | 2004 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | New York | |
| Edition | First edition | |
| Category: | Travel | |
| Author: | Charles Montgomery | |
| Publisher: | Harpercollins |
pp. ix 370. “Montgomery’s great-grandfather was the Right Reverend Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, a missionary bishop who had lived on the islands of Melanesia. The author discovered a book that the bishop had left, which contained faded monotones of black men clutching spears and photographs of bare-chested women. The book contained an account of a journey made more than a century ago, cataloguing the horrors of perilous missionary work. Dozens of traders and evangelists had been murdered on the shores of the islands that were scattered across 1,200 miles of ocean between Fiji and New Guinea. The unluckiest ones were cooked and eaten. Montgomery went to these islands to probe the bond between faith and magic. He found that the inhabitants had infused Christianity with the sorcery and shark spirits of their ancestors to invent a pantheon of new gods. The author’s documentation and analyses of these people and their world is a haunting reading experience.”
| Weight | 1 kg |
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