Cannibalisme

1931 · 0000439 — New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1931. First Edition limited to 315 copies SIGNED by the author this number 302. Hardcover. Spine lightly browned mostly at the extremities occasional handling smudges within easily Very Good or better in wrinkled glassine dustjacket & slipcase split along the bottom edge. Octavo 9.75" x 6.75" viii & 308 pages plus 32 photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth backed in tan buckram with a gilt-lettered cloth spine label in the original glassine dust wrapper & slipcase. <br/><br/>A fascinating book by occultist explorer cannibal & journalist William Buehler Seabrook. He was born in Westminster Maryland in 1884. As noted in Wikipedia in the 1920s he "traveled to West Africa and came across a tribe who partook in the eating of human meat. Seabrook writes about his experience of cannibalism in his book Jungle Ways; however later on admits the tribe did not allow him to join in on the ritualistic cannibalism. Instead he obtained samples of human flesh from a hospital and cooked it himself." Apparently Seabrook was later criminally charged with cannibalism. In 1919 occultist Aleister Crowley visited Seabrook at his farm. The visit became the basis for Seabrook's story published in Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today. Upon the 1945 suicide of Seabrook Crowley noted in his diary "The swine-dog W. B. Seabrook has killed himself at last after months of agonized slavery to his final wife.â€Â Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books