Curious Men
Ever hear of the man who walked upside down? The guano mummy? The four-ton Chinese giant? The disembodied singing head of Anthropoglossos? Whenever a mysterious curiosity arrived in Victorian London, people knew there was one man who would always be at the scene: Frank Buckland. A barrel-chested surgeon chomping an ever-present cigar, Buckland was one of the most outsized eccentrics of his time -- a naturalist who seriously proposed kangaroo-and yak-ranching in England, and a raconteur whose home was filled with a freakish array of stuffed animals, grinning skulls, and an all-too-alive gang of monkeys that snatched food off visitors' dinner p…
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- ISBN: 978-1-934781-20-3
- EAN: 9781934781203
- Produktnummer: 3968726
- Verlag: Mcsweeneys
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 116 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.0 cm 136 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 06
- Gewicht: 136
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