The Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann Paperback Book

The Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann Paperback Book

In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William Buehler Seabrook was emblematic of this trend – participating in voodoo ceremonies, riding camels cross the Sahara desert, communing with cannibals and most notably, popularising the term “zombie” in the West. A string of his bestselling books show an engaged, sympathetic gentleman hoping to share these strange, hidden delights with the rest of the world. He was willing to go deeper than any outsider had before. But, of course, there was a dark side. Seabrook was a barely functioning alcoholic who was deeply obsessed with bondage and the so-called mystical properties of pain and degradation. His life was a series of traveling highs and drunken lows; climbing on and falling off the wagon again and again. What led the popular and vivid writer to such a sad state?

ISBN-13: 978-1770462670

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Dimensions: 22.9cm x 15.3cm

Cover: Paperback

Pages: 316

Colour: Black & White

Writer / Artist / Cover Artist: Joe Ollmann

 

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