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“william seabrook”

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  • The Magic Island

    Tales of Vodou Rituals, Witchcraft, Supernatural Phenomena and the Walking Dead

    by William Seabrook ...
    The Magic Island is an account of Seabrook's experiences with Haitian Vodou in Haiti, and is considered the first popular English-language work to describe the concept of a zombie, defined by Seabrook as "a soulless human corpse, still dead, but taken from the grave and endowed by sorcery with a mechanical semblance of life—it is a dead body which is made to walk and act and move as if it were ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Americans All - A Human Study of America's Citizens from Europe

    by William Seabrook ...
    This vintage work contains an interesting and informative human study of America's citizens from Europe. It is not intended to be a statistical immigration treatise, but rather it aims to show in common, close-up, personal terms, what kind of people Americans of foreign-language origin, were. It aims to show how they contributed to the American scene, how they lived in the land of their adoption, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Magic Island

    by William Seabrook ...
    In this groundbreaking 1929 bestseller, adventurer and journalist William Seabrook ventures into the heart of Haiti, pulling back the veil on a world where ancient African traditions dance with colonial influences in the shadows of Caribbean nights. Through vivid firsthand accounts, Seabrook introduces readers to the mysterious realm of Voodoo, becoming one of the first Westerners to document its ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • This Semi-Perfect Universe

    by William Seabrook ...
    I dreamed of a snake that was digesting its own head using only math and sleight of imaginary hand, and then I read this, and know now that I’m a gifted psychic.” -Stephen Graham Jones ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Asylum

    by William Seabrook ...
    "Perhaps the most honest and haunting accounts of the struggle for mental health in literature." — ObserverThis dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute alcoholism. His sincere, self-critical appraisal of his experiences ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Magic Island

    by William Seabrook ...
    "The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read … [an] immensely important book." — New York Evening Post"A series of excellent stories about one of the most interesting corners of the American world, told by a keen and sensitive person who knows how to write." — American Journal of Sociology"It can be said of many travelers that they have traveled widely. Of Mr. Seabrook a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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