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Odd people being a popular description of singular races of man
- Title
- Odd people [electronic resource] : being a popular description of singular races of man / by Captain Mayne Reid.
- Author
- Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883.
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Bros., 1860.
- Supplementary Content
- Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Details
- Description
- 445, 2 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill.; 18 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Publisher's advertising: 2 p., 2nd count.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 69058.
- Contents
- Bosjesmen, or, Bushmen -- The Amazonian Indians -- The water-dwellers of Maracaibo -- The esquimaux -- Mundrucus, or, beheaders -- The centaurs of the "Gran Chaco" -- The Feegees, or, man-eaters -- The Tongans, or, friendly islander -- The Turcomans -- The Ottomacs, or, dirt-eaters -- The Comanches, or, prairie indians -- The Pehuenches, or, Pampas indians -- The Yamparicos, or, root-diggers -- The Guaraons, or, palm-dwellers -- The Laplanders -- The Andamaners, or, mud-bedaubers -- The Patagonian giants -- The Fuegian dwarfs.
- OCLC
- 769154113
- TGPSM12-B1090
- Author
- Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883.
- Title
- Odd people [electronic resource] : being a popular description of singular races of man / by Captain Mayne Reid.
- Imprint
- New York : Harper & Bros., 1860.
- Local Note
- Race.
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