Very special people : the struggles, loves, and triumphs of human oddities / Frederick Drimmer. - New York : Citadel Press, 1991. - XIX, 367 p., [16] carte di tav. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Data cronica
- 1991
Descrizione
- Contents
Prologue
Part 1 - Chained for Life
1. Chang and Eng: the originall siamese twins
2. More than one ... yet not two
3. Millie-Christine: the two-headed girl
4 The Tocci Brothers: the two-headed boy
5. Violet and Daisy Hilton: sold into slavery
6. The Biddenden Maids, Radica-Doodica, and other remarkable siamese twins
Part 2 - Armless and Legless Wonders
7. Carl Unthan: the armless fiddler
8. Tripp and bowen: on a bicycle built for two
9. Kingston, Kobelkoff, and other wonder
Part 3 - The Hairy People
10 Mme. Clofullia
11 Annie Jones: the bearded girl
12. France's most celebrated bearded lady
13. Some modern bearded ladies
14. The hairy, hairy people
15. The long-haired ones
Part 4 - The Little People
16. The amazing career of General Tom Thumb
17. Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren
18. Why-and what-is a midget)
19. Famous little people of past and present
Part 5. There were Giants in the Earth
20. What-and why- is a giant?
21. Byrne and Cotter: the two irish giants
22. Swan and Bates: two giants in love
23. Jack Earle: two lonely giants
24. Robert Wadlow: the Alton giant
25. Giants yesterday and today
Part 6 - Fat and Skinny
26. They don't come any heavier
27. Celesta Geyer and William J. Conn: from heavyweight to lightweight
28. Living skeletons
Part 7 - An Odd Lot
29. Zip and other Pinheads
30. Half-man, half-woman
31. Unzie the Albino and oddities
Part 8 - Very, Very Special People
32. The strange fate of Julia Pastrana
33. Grace McDaniels: the mule-faced woman
34. The elephant man by sir Frederick Treves
Luogo di edizione
- New York
ISBN
- 0806512539
Paese
- US
Lingua
- ENG Inglese
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