Ishi\'s Brain: In Search of Americas Last Wild Indian by Orin Starn

Ishi\'s Brain: In Search of Americas Last Wild Indian

Orin Starn

368 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced

Description

After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist A...

Read more

Community reviews

This book doesn't have any reviews or ratings yet!

If you've read it, mark it as 'read' and add a review to help others in the StoryGraph community figure out if it might be a book for them!

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.