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ix, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes index. |
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"Unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers: stone eaters, mind readers, poison resisters, daredevils, singing mice, etc., etc., etc., etc."--Front cover. |
| Contents |
Harry Kahne: The multiple mental marvel -- Porcine prophets and pig-faced ladies -- Attenuation as art: Willard, the man who grows -- More than the sum of their parts: Matthew Buchinger, Sarah Biffin, other anomalies of nature -- Blind Tom -- Max Malini: the last of the Mountebanks -- Datas: the man who knew too much -- Equine amusements -- Genius or charlatan? Walford Bodie, M.D. -- Born to a drier death than diving: Samuel Gilbert Scott and other daredevils -- A few word about death and show biz: Washington Irving Bishop, J. Randall Brown, and the origins of modern mind reading -- Laroche: the sisyphus of the circus world -- Arthur Lloyd: the humorous human card index -- Enterology: getting into boxes, bottles, and trouble with Seamus Burke and others -- Incombustible men and Fireproof women -- Stones, swords, snakes, and other entrées -- Le Pétomane: the end. |
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Entertainers -- Biography.
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Curiosities and wonders.
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Abnormalities, Human.
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Animals -- Abnormalities.
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Abnormalities, Human. (OCoLC)fst00794451
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Animals -- Abnormalities.
(OCoLC)fst00809469
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Curiosities and wonders. (OCoLC)fst00885285
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Entertainers. (OCoLC)fst00912655
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Learned pigs and fireproof women |
| ISBN |
0394537505 |
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9780394537504 |
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