The author of The Scalp Hunters turns popular ethnographer, describing in turn the Fijians, the Mundurucú head-takers of Brazil, the horsemen of the Gran Chaco, the San of southern Africa, Amazonian peoples, the lake-dwellers of Maracaibo, the Inuit and others, with a memoir of Reid prefaced. Its racial attitudes and its relish for the exotic are those of 1860.
A document of how Victorian readers imagined the wider world, best read as history rather than anthropology. Download the free EPUB.