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Animal Freaks: The Strange History of Amazing Animals

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Ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom.

336 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

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Jan Bondeson

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Outside of his career in medicine, he has written several nonfiction books on a variety of topics, such as medical anomalies and unsolved murder mysteries.

Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed fifty women in the buttocks, of Edward 'the Boy' Jones, who stalked Queen Victoria and stole her underwear, and Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish terrier who supposedly spent 14 years guarding his master's grave.

He is currently working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine.


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currently re-reading I enjoy the Jumbo part especially makes me weep like a pansy assed girl... oooh that's right I am...
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