Book description
Siamese twins, midgets, giants, bearded ladies, and hermaphrodites are among the people profiled with compassion and insight
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1 author picked Very Special People as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Drimmer’s 1973 book was another of my (Marc) first sideshow books. It’s packed with amazing stories about truly amazing people, and that’s what I love reading about—all the incredible things people could do despite their various anomalies.
This book may have been the first place I read about legless acrobat Eli Bowen and armless wonder Charles Tripp organizing a tandem bicycle ride—one steering, the other peddling. True teamwork. Dan and I later re-created the photo with a modern-day armless man and a legless man.
From Dan and Marc's list on sideshow performers making the impossible possible.
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