Theodora Kroeber (1897--1979), wife of Alfred Louis Kroeber, is also the author of The Inland Whale (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor, with Clifton Kroeber, of Ishi in Three Centuries (2003). Lewis Gannett was a critic for the New York Herald-Tribune.

"Let me put it to you in these terms: If you read no other book this year, you must read this one."

• PART ONE: ISHI THE YAHIPrologue: Outside the Slaughter House1 Copper -colored People on a Golden Land2 A Living People3 A Dying People4 Episodes in Extermination5 The Long Concealment6 The Yahi DisappearPART TWO: MISTER ISHIPrologue: Outside the Jail7 Ishi's New World8 Life in a Museum9 The Craftsman10 The Brightest YearEpilogue: Death in a MuseumNotesBibliography

Theodora Kroeber (1897--1979), wife of Alfred Louis Kroeber, is also the author of The Inland Whale (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor, with Clifton Kroeber, of Ishi in Three Centuries (2003). Lewis Gannett was a critic for the New York Herald-Tribune.

"Let me put it to you in these terms: If you read no other book this year, you must read this one."

• PART ONE: ISHI THE YAHIPrologue: Outside the Slaughter House1 Copper -colored People on a Golden Land2 A Living People3 A Dying People4 Episodes in Extermination5 The Long Concealment6 The Yahi DisappearPART TWO: MISTER ISHIPrologue: Outside the Jail7 Ishi's New World8 Life in a Museum9 The Craftsman10 The Brightest YearEpilogue: Death in a MuseumNotesBibliography

Theodora Kroeber (1897--1979), wife of Alfred Louis Kroeber, is also the author of The Inland Whale (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor, with Clifton Kroeber, of Ishi in Three Centuries (2003). Lewis Gannett was a critic for the New York Herald-Tribune.

"Let me put it to you in these terms: If you read no other book this year, you must read this one."

• PART ONE: ISHI THE YAHIPrologue: Outside the Slaughter House1 Copper -colored People on a Golden Land2 A Living People3 A Dying People4 Episodes in Extermination5 The Long Concealment6 The Yahi DisappearPART TWO: MISTER ISHIPrologue: Outside the Jail7 Ishi's New World8 Life in a Museum9 The Craftsman10 The Brightest YearEpilogue: Death in a MuseumNotesBibliography