NO HIDING PLACE - 1st 1942 - WILLIAM SEABROOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRAVEL OCCULT

Book Details + Condition: J.B. Lippincott Company (Philadelphia, London, New York). First Edition, 1942. Hardcover. 405 pages. Firm binding; soiling to cover edges; chafing to spine edges; owner info to front free endpaper; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. The book details the unconventional life story of an American journalist and adventurer, which takes us from Greenwich Village in its heyday to the expatriate society of France to Saudi Arabia to the American South. Through it all, William Seabrook delves deeply into his own psychology. Seabrook had a lifelong fascination with the occult practices throughout the world, which he witnessed and described first-hand in several books. In the 1920s, he traveled to West Africa and came across a tribe who partook in the eating of human meat. Seabrook writes about his experience of cannibalism in his novel, Jungle Ways; however, he later admitted the tribe did not allow him to join in on the ritualistic cannibalism. Instead,