LC ClassificationCT9993

CT. Biography
CT21-9999. Biography
CT3200-9999. Biography. By subject

Selected Works (310 total)

325 items
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
Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant
They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
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
David Jason: My Life
Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
Oddballs And Eccentrics
La Grande Therese : The Greatest Scandal of the Century
Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific
Extremes: Reflections on Human Behavior
Zishe the Strongman
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
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
Emperor of the United States of America and Other Magnificent British Eccentrics
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
Scorned and Beloved : Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics
How to Climb Mt. Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer
Character Studies: Encounters With the Curiously Obsessed
Latitude zéro
Timpson's English Eccentrics
Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders
Odd and Eccentric People
Great American Eccentrics
Adventurous Women: 8 True Stories
The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm
Hoaxes and Deception (Library of Curious and Unusual Facts)
The English Dane : a life of Jorgen Jorgenson

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