The Great Pretenders: True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries
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- Synopsis
- JAN BONDESON, M.D. focuses his medical expertise and his inciteful wit on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years. Did the son of Louis Xvi and Marie Antoinette die during his imprisonment in the Temple Tower, or was he one of the people claiming to be the Lost Dauphin after the Terror ended? What does DNA testing on the heart proported to belong to the Dauphin reveal? Was Kaspar Hauser, the mysterious boy who claimed to have spent his entire childhood in a subterranean dungeon, really the Crown Prince of Baden, or was he suffering from pseudologia fantastica, a pathological desire to deceive other people? And when an eccentric and reclusive duke built a complete set of tunnels and rooms beneath his country estate, who is to say that he also didn't have a second life as a shopkeeper with a separate family in London? In this highly anticipated work covering the most famous unsolved cases of disputed identity, Jan Bondeson uncovers all the evidence, then applies his medical knowledge and logical thinking to ascertain the true stories behind these fascinating histories. JAN bondeson, M.D., professor at University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, is the author of Buried Alive, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, The Feejee Mermaid, The Two-Headed Boy, and The London Monster, among other works.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 326 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393019698
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Jan Bondeson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Psychology, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Terry Gorman
- Proofread By:
- Terry Gorman
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.