LC Classification CT9981

C. Auxiliary Sciences of History
⮑ CT. Biography
⮑ CT21-9999. Biography
⮑ CT3200-9999. Biography. By subject
⮑ CT9960-9998. Other miscellaneous groups

Selected Works (311 total)

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Into the Wild
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
Joe Gould's Secret
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse
Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
Joe Gould's Teeth
Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels (Biography Books for Kids, Feminist Books for Girls)
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
Ghosty Men : The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders : An Urban Historical
They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant
Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family's Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness
The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama
Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
David Jason: My Life
Oddballs And Eccentrics
La Grande Therese : The Greatest Scandal of the Century
Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific
Zishe the Strongman
Extremes: Reflections on Human Behavior
Lord Minimus: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Smallest Man
Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
Fooled You!: Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years
Life is Short (no pun intended)
Rebel in a Dress: Adventurers
Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed History (The Changed History Series)
The Great Imposter
Emperor of the United States of America and Other Magnificent British Eccentrics
The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino
In the Little World: A True Story of Dwarfs, Love, and Trouble
The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots
A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson
A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham
Scandalous Society: Passion and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century
The Rector and the Rogue
How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer
Scorned and Beloved : Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics
Latitude zéro
Character Studies: Encounters With the Curiously Obsessed
Timpson's English Eccentrics
Great American Eccentrics
Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders
Hoaxes and Deception (Library of Curious and Unusual Facts)
Adventurous Women: 8 True Stories
Odd and Eccentric People
The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm
Mémoire du fleuve (la)
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