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The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month October 2014The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post "must read"! October 2014Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park. Within weeks it would be the talk of the nation.For the first time, The Lost Tribe of Coney Island unearths the incredible true story of the Igorrotes, a group of "headhunting, dog eating" tribespeople brought to America from the Philippines by the opportunistic showman Truman K. Hunt. At Luna Park, the g-string-clad Filipinos performed native dances and rituals before a wide-eyed public in a mocked-up tribal village. Millions of Americans flocked to see the tribespeople slaughter live dogs for their daily canine feasts and to hear thrilling tales of headhunting.
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Claire Prentice is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Times of London, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, The BBC, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire. She has worked as a foreign correspondent based in New York and Washington DC, and has written articles from Japan, South America, Spain and the Antarctic. She reported on the 2004, 2008 and 2012 American Presidential elections. Her first book, the incredible true story of The Lost Tribe of Coney Island, is out now, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/New Harvest.
