Odd people
Subtitle: being a popular description of singular races of man
By: by Captain Mayne Reid ; with illustrations
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Ethnology; Primitive societies; Primitive Human beings
Description: Describes the flora, fauna, and adventures three brothers encounter while searching for a white buffalo on the American prairie.
Notes: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860 ..."

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Table of contents: title: Bosjesmen, or Bushmen; title: The Amazonian Indians; title: The water-dwellers of Maracaibo; title: The Esquimaux; title: Mundrucus, or beheaders; title: The centaurs of the "Gran Chaco"; title: The Feegees, or man-eaters; title: The Tongans, or, Friendly islanders; title: The Turcomans; title: The Ottomacs, or dirt-eaters; title: The Comanches, or prairie indians; title: The Pehuenches, or, Pampas Indians; title: The Yamparicos, or root-diggers; title: The Guaraons, or palm-dwellers; title: The Laplanders; title: The Andamaners, or mud-bedaubers; title: The Patagonian giants; title: The Fuegian dwarfs.