JOANNE AND THE CANNIBALS

About the Book

JOANNE AND THE CANNIBALS is a novella reminiscent to the 1914 melodrama, THE PERILS OF PAULINE. Set in the 1860’s, Joanne is a recent graduate of Anthropology, from a highly respected Massachusetts university. Her first assignment is a misadventure with wild cannibal headhunters in the Brazilian highlands. After a narrow escape, she helps maneuver a clipper ship below the stormy Straits of Magellan, eventually becoming an Indian maharani and condemned to burning on her husband’s funeral pyre. Another close escape finds her sailing on another clipper through the Pacific, only to be captured by wild Fijians, this time to be the specialty on their menu. The second story, NORTH BEND, features a post civil war yarn that stretches from Kansas to Texas and China.

About the Author

Santiago Dizon is a retired teacher at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, California, a bedroom community of Los Angeles. Santiago taught World History, Anthropology, coached Basketball, Water Polo, and the Academic Decathlon teams for forty years. “I went to school and not to work.” Searching the world on his summer holidays and with two years of sabbatical, he took a boat, train, buses, and an old VW van from Cairo to Cape Town, Inspired by Africa, he has visited that continent twenty-three times. Then driving the Silk Road from Xian to Istanbul and kayaking the Danube for a thousand miles are special experiences for Santiago.