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Of the many reasons to vigorously recommend Charles Montgomery's remarkable travel memoir, The Last Heathen--the author's nail-biting excursions, his affecting theological queries, an abundance of magic, the collusion of spirits and historical figures--perhaps none is more persuasive than Montgomery's quietly astonishing way with words. Consider this passage: "After half an hour, Maewo appeared beneath us like the serrated back of a surfacing crocodile. The pilot banked the Twin Otter into a steep, descending arc. We landed on an airstrip whose grass was as tall and robust as prairie wheat." Or this: "The heat in Honiara was not like heat at all. It was more like a great weight pressing down from the glaring sky and squeezing you until you oozed fatigue and sweat like honey from a sponge." Or this: "Myth, like love, is a decision. What it answers is longing. What it demands is faith. What it opens is possibility." On that basis alone, The Last Heathen would be an immensely fulfilling read. Yet the book also charts a remarkable true-life journey through the seldom considered Melanesian archipelago, a chain of hundreds of islands scattered like dropped candy in the South Pacific between Australia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea. Add to the mix wiggy tales of cargo cults, martyred missionaries, the so-called pagan beliefs of the indigenous people, civil war, the brutal hand of British colonization, slavery, savagery, cannibalism, and conspiratorial sharks, and you've got a literary corker.

In 2002 Montgomery set out to trace the path of his great-grandfather, the Right Reverend Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, a man of the cloth who, like hundreds of others in the late 19th century, sought to bring Christianity to the natives. The senior Montgomery's book, The Light of Melanesia, captured his great-grandson's imagination and, after nearly a lifetime of dreaming and some hardcore research in England, Charles Montgomery elected to venture into the heart of Melanesia's for himself. The Last Heathen is what he found, not just on the islands and among the people, but in the ether, in the howls of the past, and ultimately in himself. It's doubtful Montgomery's descriptive prose, keen eye, or deeply measured conclusions will leave any reader dissatisfied, even as they may wish he had included at least some of the many photos he recalls having taken. --Kim Hughes



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In a brilliant first book now sold around the world, a young Canadian embarks on a daring journey to confront myth and magic in a forgotten corner of the Pacific.

In 1892, the Bishop of Tasmania set sail for Melanesia with the intent of rescuing islanders from lives of fear, black magic and cannibalism. Over 100 years later, his great grandson, Charles Montgomery, followed the bishop’s route through the South Pacific, seeking out the spirits and myths his missionary forebear had sought to destroy.

Montgomery explored remote shores where gospel and empire never took hold. He rubbed shoulders with barefoot preachers, witch doctors and gun-toting rebels, only to discover that the pagan spirits were more tenacious than the missionaries had imagined. Melanesians had stirred Jesus and Mary into an already spicy broth of ancestor worship, ghosts, shark gods and magic. Through confrontations with a bizarre cast of characters—the randy ethnographer, the soft-talking assassin, the leper prophet—the journey becomes a debate on the nature of magic, myth and faith, and a metaphor for the transforming power of story.

The Last Heathen marks the debut of an exciting young writer who charts his adventures with passion, insight and grace.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 magic, Sep 17 2004
Par Tilo Driessen (Vancouver, BC) - Voir tous mes commentaires
By the time a little packet of sand gets opened on page 2 of the book, I got swept up in a tale much grander than the postcard idyll of the cover seems to suggest. The narrator travels tough terrain and has adventures of the kind best experienced in an armchair; he tells them eloquently and passionately; but the real magic of the book is how these experiences are woven into larger and deeper ideas that elevate it past almost all travel writing.
It is beautifully written, it is a great book and like all great books, it transforms the reality of the reader; in the end it is their world that has changed, that has become less familiar, less certain, and strangely more alive.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Enthralling and inspiring journey, Déc 14 2004
Par Linda Low (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This book is a fascinating journey that explores the power of simply believing in something, whether it be religion, myth, an icon or people themselves. It presents facts without prejudice yet reveals fascinating details of the author's personal, emotional and geographical journey as he follows his great grandfather's footsteps to the other side of the world. It combines stories of academia, theology, history and contemporary issues in a non-confrontational yet intriguing presentation of generations and cultures colliding in our ever-shrinking global community. I highly recommend reading Charles Montgomery's "The Last Heathen". It is an exceptional story which deserves a captive audience.
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