Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea
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Book Overview
Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are twenty accounts of humans eating humans -- true stories that separate fact from fiction, exploring human depravity and the fight for survival. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1585742171
ISBN13:9781585742172
Release Date:December 2001
Publisher:Lyons Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.26 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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Fascinating Tales of True Life Horror
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
As the lurid title states, this book provides a compilation of cannibalism incidents that happened on land and on sea. The stories themselves are unsettling not just because of the subject matter but under the conditions which some of them occur. For example, not all of the stories concern people driven under desperate circumstances to feed on human flesh (although there are quite a few stories concerning instances in which that happened such as the ill-fated Donner party). Many of the tales have cannibalism being practiced voluntarily by some cultures in the Pacific and pre-Columbian North America. Furthermore, there are stories concerning human monsters in modern day America like serial killers Albert Fish and Jeffery Dahmer who preyed on their neighbors. Clearly this book requires a strong stomach to read but for those interested in real life Hannibal Lecters and what happens to people driven to the depths of hunger that modern man rarely knows, it is an essential read.
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