An edition of Banvard's folly: thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck (2001)

Banvard's folly

thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck

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An edition of Banvard's folly: thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck (2001)

Banvard's folly

thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck

1st ed.

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Profiles thirteen scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, adventurers, and writers who once basked in glory, but faded into obscurity due to failed experiments, bad luck, and the signs of madness.

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Publisher
Picador USA
Language
English
Pages
286

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Subjects
Biography, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Impostors and imposture, Inventors

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Cover of: Banvard's folly
Banvard's folly: thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck
2001, Picador USA
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Table of Contents

Banvard's folly
The clever dullard
Symmes hole
The man with N-ray eyes
If only geniuses knew how to scheme
22,000 seedlings
Psalmanazar
The pneumatic underground
He being dead yet speaketh not
A dedicated amateur of fashion
A.J. Pleasonton's blue light special
Walking on the rings of Saturn.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-283).
Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
920.02
Library of Congress
CT9990 .C64 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 286 p. :
Number of pages
286

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3942467M
Internet Archive
banvardsfollythi00coll
ISBN 10
0312268866
LCCN
2001021930
OCLC/WorldCat
45963005
Library Thing
56738
Goodreads
400120

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