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Odd people : being a popular description of singular races of man / by Captain Mayne Reid, author of "The desert home," "The bush boys," et cetera : with illustrations.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Juvenile literature.
- Ethnology.
- Primitive societies--Juvenile literature.
- Primitive societies.
- National characteristics--Juvenile fiction.
- National characteristics.
- Indians of North America--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of South America--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of South America.
- Pacific Islanders--Juvenile literature.
- Pacific Islanders.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (445 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper and Brothers, 1860.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements follow text.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 665160444
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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