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

In Cannibals, Joseph S. Cummins has assembled some of the most dramatic and controversial incidents of cannibalism in history. He draws from a powerful account of the disastrous 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 Pacific; and from Piers Paul Read's classic Alive, which relates the tragic aftermath of a 1972 Uruguayan airliner crash in the high Andes. But Cummins also brings together little-known and equally shocking tales-how marauding gangs of cannibals, circa 1150 A.D., may have destroyed a flourishing southwestern civilization; how modern forensic evidence revealed the horrifying truth behind the vanished 1845 expedition of Arctic explorer John Franklin; how the Japanese practiced ritual cannibalism on Allied soldiers during World War II; and much more. Cannibals is both a dramatic document and a tool to learn more about this mysterious and little-understood phenomenon.Cummins, Joseph is the author of 'Cannibals Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea', published 2005 under ISBN 9781592284535 and ISBN 1592284531.