歷險福爾摩沙: 回憶在滿大人、海賊與「獵頭番」間的激盪歲月

歷險福爾摩沙: 回憶在滿大人、海賊與「獵頭番」間的激盪歲月
ISBN-10
9578016433
ISBN-13
9789578016439
Category
History / Asia / General
Pages
320
Language
Chinese
Published
2021-08-05
Publisher
前衛出版社
Author
必麒麟(W. A. Pickering)

Description

必麒麟(W. A. Pickering),英格蘭傳奇冒險家,當時最著名的「台灣通」,用這部回憶錄將我們帶回野蠻、危險又生氣勃勃的十九世紀福爾摩沙。透過他的親身見聞,我們看到平素貪財獨斷的滿大人,某日卻因上級突然要造訪而倉皇失措,火速重振已廢弛數十年的軍備的荒唐場景。我們也聽到自視是天下惟一人種的漢人,對著「蠻子」大談殺嬰之必要性,並強調發明蒸氣機根本算不上智慧。當然,冒險性格濃烈的漢人農夫漁夫,在烈日之下對路過客大擺擋路劫財的陣勢,或對遇難船舶使出拆船越貨的絕活時,其模樣自然也被生動地保存下來。


書中還迴盪著被逼到生存邊緣的平埔族老婦的顫音:「白種人才是我們的親戚,他們不屬於邪惡、留長辮的漢人,我是何等的幸運,竟在兩眼昏花、面臨死亡之際,又看見『紅毛親戚』。」但剽悍純真的原住民,永遠是必麒麟最神往的朋友,他記下夜闖魯凱族萬斗籠社的每一刻,那月光下進行的奇異又羅曼蒂克的歌唱會,那被「野蠻人」稱讚為「白種親戚不愧是真正的男人,用男子漢的氣概唱歌,不像漢人學女人的聲音,尖聲歌唱」的一幕,如何能遺忘?至於「遊歷者號」事件中,恆春大頭目與美國領事談判之際,李善德將軍佯裝憤怒地掏出玻璃眼珠的趣味戲碼,也被他洋洋得意地提及。


透過一件又一件的歷險與奇遇,必麒麟不僅訴說了自身超乎想像的激盪生涯,也為後世讀者留下一個滿大人、海盜與獵頭番活躍共存的老台灣倩影。

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