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BUTTON, JEMMY (ORUNDELLICO) & NICK HAZLEWOOD (EDITOR) - Savage the Life and Times of Jemmy Button

 1550127753,
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340739118. Remainder marks on top and bottom of page edges, dealer's stamp on front pastedown. Some creasing bottom back panel of dustjacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 7.9 X 5.4 X 1.6 inches; 384 pages; "In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and made a strong impression on many of the major figures in Britain, eventually becoming a celebrity. Charles Darwin himself befriended the Fuegian and later wrote about their time together on The Beagle, voyaging back to the southern tip of South America. Their friendship influenced one of the most important and controversial works of the century, On the Origin of the Species.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 13.75 | £UK 11.75 | JP¥ 2295] Book number 19777

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