Learned pigs & fireproof women
By: Ricky Jay.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Villard Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Entertainers -- Biography; Curiosities and wonders; Abnormalities, Human; Animals -- Abnormalities
Other titles: Learned pigs and fireproof women.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: 1
title: Harry Kahne: The Multiple Mental Marvel
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Porcine Prophets and Pig-Faced Ladies
pagenum: 7; label: 3
title: Attenuation as Art: Willard, The Man Who Grows
pagenum: 37; label: 4
title: More Than the Sum of Their Parts: Matthew Buchinger, Sarah Biffin, and Other Anomalies of Nature
pagenum: 43; label: 5
title: Blind Tom
pagenum: 73; label: 6
title: Max Malini: The Last of the Mountbank
pagenum: 83; label: 7
title: Datas: The Man Who Knew Too Much
pagenum: 97; label: 8
title: Equine Amusements
pagenum: 103; label: 9
title: Genius or Charlatan? Walford Bodie, M.D.
pagenum: 125; label: 10
title: Born to a Drier Death Than Diving: Samuel Gilbert Scott and Other Daredevils
pagenum: 147; label: 11
title: A Few Words About Death and Show Biz: Washington Irving Bishop, J. Randall Brown, and the Origins of Modern Mind Reading
pagenum: 155; label: 12
title: Laroche: The Sisyphus of the Circus World
pagenum: 201; label: 13
title: Arthur Lloyd: The Humorous Human Card
pagenum: 213; label: 14
title: Enterology: Getting Into Boxes, Bottles, and Trouble with Seamus Burke and Others
pagenum: 221; label: 15
title: Incombustible Men and Fireproof Women
pagenum: 237; label: 16
title: Stones, Swords, Snakes, and Other Entrées
pagenum: 275; label: 17
title: Le Pétomane: The End
pagenum: 301; title: For the Curious
pagenum: 314; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 333