The abominable Mr. Seabrock (2017)
The abominable Mr. Seabrock
Une BD de Joe Ollmann chez Drawn & Quarterly - 2017
01/2017 9781770462670 Format normal 388862
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, popularizing 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... Lire la suite