The Last Heathen

The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia is a book by Charles Montgomery, published in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre in 2004.

Montgomery traveled to Melanesia expecting to find a volatile mixture of the tribal, pagan religion and Christianity.

The book won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction in 2005.

[5] Holly Morris reviewed the American edition for The New York Times in 2006: "As both traveler and writer, Montgomery is a thoughtful and entertaining guide, and his story has rich layers of history and anthropology.

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