As a record of acculturation-of carefully observed sudden impingement of one culture upon another-it is unique, and its record of psychological reactions is worthy of careful note.' * American Anthropologist * 'Through it all, Ishi emerges a man, an individual always a man who himself embodied not only the history of his people, but also an acceptance of the world that destroyed them. As a reference work on central California ethnology it is outstanding. And the answers are truly moving, elements of drama and high tragedy.' * American Scientist * 'Kroeber's book, one of the few scholarly volumes of this century to reach the best seller list, presents a sensitive and sympathetic discussion of this 'stone age' man. remains a staple of that state's high-school curriculum.' * Chronicle of Higher Education * 'If we wish to know something of the inhabitants of this continent before Western Man arrived, what is surely known of them, what they believed, what our part was in their ultimate fate, this book can give many answers.

She has avoided the excesses of pathos or condemnation to which such a story lends itself.' * Ethnohistory * 'One of the first widely read books to offer an unvarnished account of the near-extermination of indigenous Californians in the late 19th century. Theodora Kroeber has told it concisely, factually, sympathetically, and beautifully.

stirring and fascinating.' * San Francisco Chronicle * 'A book that all Americans should read.' * New York Times * 'This book is remarkably lively and interesting anthropology.' * Atlantic * 'Kroeber's book, one of the few scholarly volumes of this century to reach the best seller list, presents a sensitive and sympathetic discussion of this 'stone age' man. 'Let me put it to you in these terms: If you read no other book this year, you must read this one.' * Los Angeles Times * 'A highly original literary work and a great human story.

Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber