The creator of Peter Parley gathers short accounts of extraordinary people: the calculating boy Zerah Colburn, the young Pascal discovering geometry, Newton, the Admirable Crichton, the painter West, Mozart, Elihu Burritt, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett in his own words, and impostors such as Psalmanazar and the mysterious Caspar Hauser.
A browsable cabinet of human oddities, written for young readers of the 1840s. Download the free EPUB.