Boy From The Sky: The curious genesis of the world's first ethnography by Nigel Randell

Boy From The Sky: The curious genesis of the world's first ethnography

Nigel Randell

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography adventurous slow-paced
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In 1806 a British privateer limped into the Tongan archipelago. This is the story of the fifteen year-old ship's clerk who, in four years, rose from being a naked and derided castaway to a member of the Tongan aristocracy. Eight years after he wa...

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