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Adam Goodheart

Adam Goodheart

Adam Goodheart is a historian, travel writer, essayist and the author of The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth, as well as the New York Times bestseller 1861: The Civil War Awakening. His articles have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, the Atlantic, the New York Times magazine and the American Scholar, among others.

Boatmen off North Sentinel Island in 1998

A Century Before the Residents of a Remote Island Killed a Christian Missionary, Their Predecessors Resisted the British Empire

When a white clergyman tried to punish captive Andamanese for their supposed misdeeds, they slapped him back