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Circuses & Sailing Ships: Recollections of a Runaway New England Boy
Circuses Sailing Ships Recollections of a Runaway New England Boy Author:Norman C. Getchell, Nelson F. Getchell Recollections of a runaway New England boy as told to his son. — Among other adventures, this turn-of-the-century teenage boy was run out of town behind a club-wielding elephant, survived a fiery shipwreck and a week adrift in the south Atlantic, and lived for a season on an exotic island in the Indian Ocean. During all this period his family in ... more »Maine had no idea where he was, and he didn't contact them until he was a grown man, after a bizarre brush with death in New York City.
Extravagantly illustrated with more than 30 posters, photographs, and other fine memorabilia of the era.« less