Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea

Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press, 2001. First Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9. 271 Pages. Black boards with black quarter spine, gold lettering, and black endpapers. Dust jacket price $24.95 is unclipped. Twenty accounts of humans eating humans -- true stories that separate fact from fiction, exploring human depravityk and the fight for survival. Here are some of the most dramatic incidents of cannibalism in history. Draws from a powerful account of the disastrousl Donner party expedition in the snows of the Sierra Nevada in 1847, from Nathaniel Philbrick's bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, about the wreck of the whaleship Essex in the South Poacific, and from Piers Paul Read's classic Alive, which relates the tragic aftermath of the crash of a Uruguayan airliner in the high andes in 1972. Cummins also brings together little-known and equally shocking true accoutns -- how marauding gangs of cannbals, circa 1150 A.D. may have destroyed a flourishing Southwestern civilization. Howmodenr forensic evidence revealed the horrifying truth behind the vanished 1845 expedition of Artic explorer John Franklin, how the Japanese practiced cannibalism on Allied soldiers during World warII, and much more. DThhis both a dramatic document and a chance for us to learn more about this mysterious and little-understood activity.