TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanborn,Geoffrey
TI  - Whipscars and tattoos: The last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori 
SN  - 9780199894819 (ebook) :
AV  - PS1408 
U1  - 813.2 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cooper, James Fenimore,
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - Maori (New Zealand people) in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Through careful historical research, Geoffrey Sanborn reveals how both James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop the iconic characters they created in The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751693.001.0001
ER  -