Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of people who didn't change the world

9780312300333

First Picador USA paperback edition

x, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references

John Banvard
William Henry Ireland
John Cleves Symmes
René Blondlot
François Sudre
Ephraim Bull
George Psalmanazar
Alfred Ely Beach
Martin Tupper
Robert Coates
Augustus J. Pleasonton
Delia Bacon
Thomas Dick

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