Title: Banvard's folly
Subtitle: thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck
Description: Profiles thirteen scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, adventurers, and writers who once basked in glory, but faded into obscurity due to failed experiments, bad luck, and the signs of madness.
Subjects: Biography, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Impostors and imposture, Inventors