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Jack Renton's remains the only authenticated account of a mental and physical ordeal that has haunted the Western imagination for centuries. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, he drifted for two thousand miles across the Pacific, only to be washed up on the shores of an island shunned by all 19th century mariners, Malatia in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes and possession by a tribe of head hunters and was forced to go native to survive.
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The White Headhunter of Malaita, Nigel Randell
- Language
- Released
- 2003
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The White Headhunter of Malaita
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nigel Randell
- Publisher
- Constable
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1841196010
- ISBN13
- 9781841196015
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- Jack Renton's remains the only authenticated account of a mental and physical ordeal that has haunted the Western imagination for centuries. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, he drifted for two thousand miles across the Pacific, only to be washed up on the shores of an island shunned by all 19th century mariners, Malatia in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes and possession by a tribe of head hunters and was forced to go native to survive.