The Men Who Would Be King
ISBN-13: 9781911306436
Author(s): Jon Tonks
Subjects: AJ
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Publisher Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Publication Date: 25-11-2021
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£39.00
About the book
The Men Who Would Be King tells the stories of men from the West who go to Vanuatu claiming/believing they are the fulfilment of a prophecy on the islands that says a divine man will come from overseas. These tales are as wily as any fiction; a claimant to a tropical throne living in exile in Nice, an American filmmaker wandering between villages handing out necklaces of his own face. This book asks why the old explorers dream about deified white men has endured in the Western imagination, through films and literature, and examines the long shadow it casts into our own time.