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Learned pigs & fireproof women
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Learned pigs & fireproof women
1987, Warner Books
in English
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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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