Curious Men: Being a Collection of Freaks, Frauds, and Fine Fellows, Jgathered by an Eminent Victorian - Couverture souple

Buckland, Frank

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1934781207 ISBN 13 : 9781934781203

Editeur : McSweeney's Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

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 plates. Rescued after a century of obscurity, and culled from thousands of pages of Buckland's eyewitness accounts, Curious Men rediscovers 18 tales from one of the most curious men of all.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McSweeney's Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1934781207
• ISBN 13: 9781934781203
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible