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    Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
    Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
    Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
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    Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button

    By Nick Hazlewood

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    A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit.

    In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and made a strong impression on many of the major figures in Britain, eventually becoming a celebrity. Charles Darwin himself befriended the Fuegian and later wrote about their time together on The Beagle, voyaging back to the southern tip of South America. Their friendship influenced one of the most important and controversial works of the century, On the Origin of Species.

    Upon his return to Tierra del Fuego, Jemmy found that life could never be the same for him there. The Beagle's captain deposited the young man on a lonely, windswept shore and charged him with the tasks of "civilizing" his people and bringing God to his homeland. At first ostracized and attacked by other Fuegians, Jemmy later became the target of zealous and ambitious missionaries. Thirty years after his return, a missionary schooner in Tierra del Fuego was attacked, with nearly everyone on board killed, and Button himself was accused of leading the massacre.

    In Nick Hazlewood's Savage, Button's life story illustrates how the lofty ideals of imperialism often resulted in appalling consequences. Thoroughly researched and remarkably well written, this fascinating and poignant story is ultimately about survival, revenge, murder, and the destruction of a whole race of people, blurring the boundaries of civilization and savagery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 2, 2014
    ISBN9781466880283
    Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
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    Nick Hazlewood

    Nick Hazlewood has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of In the Way, which was chosen by The Times (London) as their soccer book of 1996; Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button; and Coffin Nails and Tombstone Trails. Hazlewood holds a first-class honors degree in history from University College Swansea, University of Wales. He lives in London.

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    • 3/5
      Das Buch erzählt die wechsel-und leidvolle Geschichte der Missionierung Feuerlands, aufgehängt am Schicksal des Indianers Jemmy Button. Er wurde verschleppt und nach Europa mitgenommen, später wieder zurückgebracht und dient als Beispiel für einen Mann eines Naturvolks, der als Mittler zwischen den Welten dienen sollte, meist aber zwischen den Welten stand. Das Buch ist wirklich interessant, denn es macht transparent, wie die Kolonialisierung dieser Gebiete aussah und welche Ideen die Missionare hatten. Es ist extrem gut recherchiert. Leider finde ich es etwas langatmig zu lesen und deshalb musste ich mich direkt immer wieder aufraffen. Im Buch sind auch interessante Bilder enthalten, die die Hauptfigur und die damalige Zeit illustrieren. Julia Voss ist der Meinung, dass Jemmy Button als Vorbild für Michael Endes Jim Knopf dient und das klingt sehr plausibel.
    • 3/5
      Jemmy Button, a “savage” native of Tierra del Fuego who lived during the early and mid-1800s, managed to get around. England’s King William IV and Queen Adelaide requested he visit them during his sojourn in their country. Charles Darwin knew Jemmy and used to converse with him when they were shipmates during the former’s famous voyage on the Beagle (Darwin was ship naturalist, Button a passenger). Button even figures in The Descent of Man, where Darwin notes that “Jemmy Button, with justifiable pride, stoutly maintained that there was no devil in his land.” Darwin probably knew better than to say the same of England.Jemmy’s claim calls to mind Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation, after a visit to early nineteenth-century Manchester, that “Civilisation works its miracles and civilised man is turned back almost into a savage.” In any event, after his first visit, Jemmy Button declined to travel again to England when another opportunity to do so arose.For more, including a murder and the decimation of a people, check out Nick Hazelwood’s Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button, an account of 19th century encounters of Fuegian natives with explorers and immigrants from Britain and Europe. There is much of interest in it although the account suffers from a scarcer level of detail than we find in the best histories. Jemmy’s own story is incomplete and frequently interrupted during the narrative, which doesn’t surprise because when not with the English, when with his own people, little is known about his life. With these deficits Savage falls short of the best books in its subgenre. It’s worth the reading anyway.
    • 4/5
      In 1830, an English sea captain bought a young boy from a group of Indians, natives of Tierra del Fuego, islands located off the southern tip of South America. At least that’s what Captain Robert FitzRoy claimed. The Indians say Orundellico, given the name Jemmy Button by his English captors-cum-benefactors, was kidnapped.Savage is the story of the first Fuegian to learn English and the white Europeans who sought to serve God by “civilizing” him. Along the way, we meet the young Charles Darwin, who was on the second voyage of FitzRoy’s Beagle, England’s King William IV (nicknamed “Silly Billy”) and Queen Adelaide, as well as a host of lords, missionaries, and an assortment of well-meaning ninnies.Hazlewood continues the story past the death of Jemmy Button, into the next century, when the exploitation of Tierra del Fuego results in the virtual demise of its indigenous inhabitants. Settlers considered the locals to be pests that stood in the way of their economic success; they were hunted down and shot, in the same vein as a fox in the hen house or a coyote among sheep.Nick Hazlewood has done a fine job of research and does a creditable job of spinning his yarn. Each port of call, each mission station, each village or city is meticulously described as it must have appeared at the time. These descriptions, along with his character-driven account of events lend a you-are-there air to his narrative.

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