01771nam a2200349 a 4500 EDZ0000077252 StDuBDS 20150804193950.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110509s2011 nyu fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199894819 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PS1408 813.2 22 Sanborn, Geoffrey. Whipscars and tattoos [electronic resource] : The last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori / Geoffrey Sanborn. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource. 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). Includes bibliographical references and index. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Mohicans Sources. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Characters Magua. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Knowledge New Zealand. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick Sources. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Characters Queequeg. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Knowledge New Zealand. Maori (New Zealand people) in literature. Print version 9780199751693 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751693.001.0001 38747 38747