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:'''''The Shark God''' redirects here. For the 1949 film, see [[Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God]].''
'''''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. In 2006, it was published by [[HarperCollins]] as ''The Shark God'' in the United States.
''The Last Heathen'' is the autobiographical account of the author in his journey to [[Melanesia]], following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Bishop Henry Montgomery, and to study the effect of his great-grandfather's religion on the people. Montgomery traveled to Melanesia expecting to find a volatile mixture of the tribal, pagan religion and Christianity. He found a comfortable hybrid instead, the two religions living in harmony. The book details his journey as well as his discoveries, from an atheistic point of view.
The book won the [[Charles Taylor Prize]] for Literary Non-fiction in 2005. The book has also won the [[Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize]].
==External links==
* [http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/2005/winner2005.htm Charles Taylor Prize]
* [http://www.joewiebe.com/books/last_heathen.htm Book Review by Joe Wiebe]
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