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Odd people : being a popular description of singular races of man / by Captain Mayne Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (445, 2 p., [8] leaves of plates ) ill. ;
- Other Title:
- Odd people
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Bros., 1860.
- 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 advertising: 2 p., 2nd count.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 69058.
- OCLC:
- 12
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