{"product_id":"9781472113320","title":"The White Headhunter","description":"\u003cp\u003eShanghaied in San Francisco in 1868, teenage Scots sailor Jack Renton then found himself on a voyage into the heart of darkness. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, Renton drifted for 2000 miles, only to be washed up on the shores of a Pacific island shunned by 19th-century mariners, Malaita in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes by headhunters and forced to 'go native' to survive.  Initially a slave to their chief, Kabou, he eventually became the man's most trusted warrior and adviser. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenton's own account of his eight-year exile, published after he was rescued, remains the only authenticated account of a mental and physical ordeal that still haunts the imagination to this day. It caused a sensation at the time, though it is now clear that it airbrushed out most of the key events. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearching the Renton legend, Nigel Randell spent several years talking to the Malaitans and piecing together a very different account from Renton's sanitised version. The ultimate irony is that a man so keen to conceal his 'crimes' should have bequeathed their evidence - a necklace of 60 human teeth - to a collector who donated it to a national museum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135681052912,"sku":"9781472113320","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781472113320_p0.jpg?v=1763597465","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781472113320","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}