The Portable Scatalog: Excerpts from Scatalogic Rites of All Nations

by John G. Bourke, Louis Kaplan

A bizarre, hilarious rediscovered classic. After attending an unusual ritual in New Mexico in 1881, Bourke became fascinated with excrement. These selections of his 500-page forgotten volume offer the strangest ancedotes and comprise, possibly, the gag gift of the decade. Foreword by Sigmund Freud. Etchings.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1994

About the author

John Gregory Bourke was a captain in the United States Army and a prolific diarist and postbellum author; he wrote several books about the American Old West, including ethnologies of its indigenous peoples. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions while a cavalryman in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Based on his service during the war, his commander nominated him to West Point, where he graduated in 1869, leading to service as an Army officer until his death.