Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America FROM THE PUBLISHER
The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was both a product of her era and of her insight and her empathy.
FROM THE CRITICS
Los Angeles Times
One of the most moving, tragic and ultimately triumphant human stories I have ever read.
San Francisco Chronicle
A highly original literary work and a great human story.
San Francisco Examiner
This magnificent biography of the lone survivor of the Yahi Indians shows man at his best.
Chicago Tribune
Absolutely fascinating.
Washington Post
Ishi's story is one of the most remarkable in the annals of Indians on this continent, and Mrs. Kroeber tells it with an integrity and insight that raises it to the level of history which is also art.
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