Author: Eric Jones
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, amp, offbeat, stuff, oddities, series, roadside, hampshire, quirky, characters, new
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0762739797
ISBN-13: 9780762739790

Author: William Schemmel
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, offbeat, stuff, series, amp, roadside, quirky, characters, georgia, oddities
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0762741104
ISBN-13: 9780762741106

This laugh-out-loud giude will introduce readers to a different side of the Peach State. With this guide in hand, they can tour the cities and swamplands, and then hit the road to pick their own Kiwis, chase a greased pig during Climax Swine Time, or welcome the buzzards back to their winter roost.

Author: Seth Brown
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, amp, offbeat, stuff, oddities, series, roadside, island, quirky, characters, rhode
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0762743387
ISBN-13: 9780762743384

Authors:Vince Staten, Liz Serrano,
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, offbeat, stuff, series, amp, roadside, quirky, characters, kentucky, oddities
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0762741058
ISBN-13: 9780762741052

Did you know that it is illegal to sell alcohol in Bourbon County, but drinkers are free to down a few in Christian County? This and much more essential Kentucky know-how awaits within the pages of this humorous guide. Hundreds of stories are accompanied by addresses and phone numbers for the brave, so you yourself can meet the woman who collects pictures of swirling toilet seats, visit the store that sells more Florida souvenirs than any gift shop not in Florida, and race an outhouse on wheels during the Great Outhouse Blowout!

Author: Charles Case
Publisher: Review & Herald Publishing Association
Keywords: curiosities
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0828019169
ISBN-13: 9780828019163

Explore the wild world of nature. Get ready to trek across the desert, climb the mountain peaks, dive deep into the ocean, fly high into the sky—all to discover the marvelous things that God has created.  From comet dust to flying squirrels, kangaroo rats to sea cucumbers, the great outdoors holds countless curiosities. You won’t believe what you read about worms that build tents, killer whales that like to play, and animals that nap for seven months. And just wait until you hear about starfishes that grow new arms and crabs that look like they’re playing the violin!  God has hidden

Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Keywords: curiosities, medical, cabinet
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-12-31
List price: $26.85
ISBN-10: 1860642284
ISBN-13: 9781860642289

Before museums there were cabinets of medical curiosities: a dried mermaid might sit next to a giant’s shinbone; the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In this well-illustrated book, the author uses his medical expertise to explore some of these medical freaks, outright frauds and popular myths. He debunks some as mere superstition and offers medical diagnoses for other cases. He explores such bizarre phenomena as spontaneous human combustion; snake and frog colonies living in a person’s stomach; and vicious tribes of tail-bearing men. Bondeson also tells the st

Author: Franklin F. Heard
Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co
Keywords: reporters, law, curiosities
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1982-06
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0837706440
ISBN-13: 9780837706443

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