Whipscars and Tattoos

In this original study, Geoffrey Sanborn presents a fresh interpretation of the villanous Magua in James Fenimore Cooper''s The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and of the dignified harpooner Queequeg in Herman Melville''s Moby-Dick (1851). Through careful historical research, Sanborn has determined that both authors relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the ...