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By Mayne Reid
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The collection presents a series of travel sketches and popular ethnographic portraits of diverse peoples encountered across oceans and continents. Each chapter focuses on a particular group, describing environment, customary practices, physical appearance, and modes of subsistence or conflict, often framed by adventurous anecdotes and field observation. Regions range from Pacific islands and Arctic coasts to South American plains and African deserts, and the narrative mixes natural description, cultural detail, and storytelling vigor to convey varieties of human life rather than systematic analysis.

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Title: The man-eaters and other odd people

A popular description of singular races of man.

Author: Mayne Reid

Contributor: Richard Henry Stoddard

Release date: April 5, 2023 [eBook #70452]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: T.R. Knox & Co, 1860

Credits: Richard Tonsing, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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THE MAN-EATERS
 
AND
 
OTHER ODD PEOPLE.

A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF
SINGULAR RACES OF MAN.
BY
CAPT. MAYNE REID,
AUTHOR OF “THE DESERT HOME,” “THE BUSH-BOYS,” ETC.
With Illustrations.
NEW YORK:
THOMAS R. KNOX & CO.,
813 Broadway.
1884.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1884, by
THOMAS R. KNOX & CO.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
New York, January 1st, 1869.

Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co.:—

I accept the terms offered, and hereby concede to you the exclusive right of publication, in the United States, of all my juvenile Tales of Adventure, known as Boys’ Novels.

MAYNE REID.
TROW’S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.