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Book - Anthropological Travelogue/Fictional, Captain Mayne Reid, Odd People being A Popular Description of Singular Races of Man, 1860
... A young Vladimir Nabokov was so obsessed with Mayne Reid's The Headless Horseman that he translated the entire book into French verse as a teenager, and Fidel Castro famously claimed that Mayne Reid’s tales of guerrilla warfare in the American West influenced his own military tactics during the Cuban Revolution.
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Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man (1860) is an interesting piece of 19th-century literature. The book was written by Captain Thomas Mayne Reid (1818–1883), a Scots-Irish American novelist and adventurer. He was immensely popular in the mid-to-late 19th century for his boys' adventure novels, tales of the American West, and travelogues. The true first edition was published in London by Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1860. In the United States, it was published around the same time (1860/1861) by Ticknor and Fields in Boston, and later editions were retitled The Man-Eaters and Other Odd People. The book is an early work of popular ethnology and anthropology, written for a general audience and heavily marketed toward young readers and armchair travelers of the Victorian era.
Book, brown covers, embossed with borders and patterns and gilt decoration and titles. The book includes illustrations. Handwritten inscription on the front paste-down page. The opposite page has a stamped and a handwritten inscription.
The book was presented as a prize to a Latin student at the National School, Warrnambool in 1861.
Title: Odd People being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man.
Alternate title: Odd People or Singular Races of Man
Author: Captain Mayne Reid
Publisher: Routledge Warne & Routledge, London
Date: 1860
Further information: additional text on the spine reads 'A Proper Study of Mankind is Man'fictionOdd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man (1860) is an interesting piece of 19th-century literature. The book was written by Captain Thomas Mayne Reid (1818–1883), a Scots-Irish American novelist and adventurer. He was immensely popular in the mid-to-late 19th century for his boys' adventure novels, tales of the American West, and travelogues. The true first edition was published in London by Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1860. In the United States, it was published around the same time (1860/1861) by Ticknor and Fields in Boston, and later editions were retitled The Man-Eaters and Other Odd People. The book is an early work of popular ethnology and anthropology, written for a general audience and heavily marketed toward young readers and armchair travelers of the Victorian era.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, odd people, captain mayne reid, national school warrnambool., daniel b sellers, classic fiction, the proper study of mankind is man, singular races of man, , routledge warne and routledge, latin student
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