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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400032082ISBN-10:1400032083UPC:9781400032082Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCR2N4A9EK
Hottentot Venus
It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry's ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon's physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400032082ISBN-10:1400032083UPC:9781400032082Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCR2N4A9EK
Barbara Chase-Riboud is a Carl Sandburg Prize-winning poet and the prize-winning author of four acclaimed, widely translated historical novels, the bestselling Sally Hemings, Valide: A Novel of the Harem, Echo of Lions (about the Amistad mutiny), and The President's Daughter. She is a winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and received a knighthood in arts and letters from the French...
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