Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s by Jane Nicholas

Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s

Jane Nicholas

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada.Jane Nicholas takes us on a search ...

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