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Villard Books
Language
English
Pages
340

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Subjects

Abnormalities, Abnormalities, Human, Amusements, Animals, Biography, Curiosities and wonders, Entertainers, History, Human Abnormalities, Animals, abnormalities
Edition Availability
Cover of: Learned pigs & fireproof women
Learned pigs & fireproof women
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed.
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Learned pigs & fireproof women
1987, Warner Books
in English - Warner Books ed.
Cover of: Learned pigs & fireproof women
Learned pigs & fireproof women
1987, Hale, The Crowood Press
in English
Cover of: Learned pigs & fireproof women
Learned pigs & fireproof women
1986, Villard Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Page vii
1. Harry Kahne: The Multiple Mental Marvel
Page 1
2. Porcine Prophets and Pig-Faced Ladies
Page 7
3. Attenuation as Art: Willard, The Man Who Grows
Page 37
4. More Than the Sum of Their Parts: Matthew Buchinger, Sarah Biffin, and Other Anomalies of Nature
Page 43
5. Blind Tom
Page 73
6. Max Malini: The Last of the Mountbank
Page 83
7. Datas: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Page 97
8. Equine Amusements
Page 103
9. Genius or Charlatan? Walford Bodie, M.D.
Page 125
10. Born to a Drier Death Than Diving: Samuel Gilbert Scott and Other Daredevils
Page 147
11. A Few Words About Death and Show Biz: Washington Irving Bishop, J. Randall Brown, and the Origins of Modern Mind Reading
Page 155
12. Laroche: The Sisyphus of the Circus World
Page 201
13. Arthur Lloyd: The Humorous Human Card
Page 213
14. Enterology: Getting Into Boxes, Bottles, and Trouble with Seamus Burke and Others
Page 221
15. Incombustible Men and Fireproof Women
Page 237
16. Stones, Swords, Snakes, and Other Entrées
Page 275
17. Le Pétomane: The End
Page 301
For the Curious
Page 314
Acknowledgments
Page 333

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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New York
Other Titles
Learned pigs and fireproof women.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
790.2/092/2, B
Library of Congress
PN1583 .J38 1986

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 340 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
340

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2550546M
Internet Archive
isbn_0394537505
ISBN 10
0394537505
LCCN
85040880
OCLC/WorldCat
14001801
Library Thing
176794
Goodreads
872583

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2028709W

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University of Prince Edward Island MARC record
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