Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing. Cream colored buckram boards clean and square with pointed tips and tight spine. Text block clean save for foxing on top and front edges though no internal markings. Dust jacket mostly unblemished with small spine tape repair, minor foxing and price clipped with tiny loss at spine top and edges; however looks sharp now in a new shiny mylar cover. Illustrated, bibliography. Ishi means man in Yana. "The life and death of a California Indian tribe and the story of Ishi, its last survivor, who emerged from the stone age into the modern world in 1911." Shipping box is suitable for wrapping..

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In the early 1900s a small band of California Indians in the Yahi tribe lived in concealment, resisting the fate that had all but wiped out their people -- violent death by the invading gold seekers and settlers. In time, members of the small group died, until there remained a single survivor -- the man who became known as Ishi. This book tells the haunting, heroic story of Ishi -- the boy, the man, the lone survivor of his tribe.

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Bookseller: Winding Road Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001656
Title: Ishi (in two worlds)
Author: Kroeber, Theodora
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 272423149X
ISBN 13: 9782724231496
Publisher: University of California Press
Place of Publication: Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 1961
Keywords: California Native Americans Yahi Anthropology Biography

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