The forbidden experiment
Subtitle: the story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
By: Roger Shattuck.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Wild Boy of Aveyron.; Feral children -- France -- Aveyron -- Biography.
Description: An account of the public life of a young boy who appeared in a French village in 1800 after living as a wild animal for most of his eleven or twelve years and of the attempts of a doctor to bring him to a civilized state.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 215-218.