The Great Pretenders – The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries - Hardcover

Bondeson, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393019691 ISBN 13: 9780393019698

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004

Synopsis

In this highly entertaining work, Jan Bondeson delves into the great unsolved cases of disputed identity. Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette die in the Temple Tower or was he one of the fellows claiming to be the dauphin after the Terror? Was Kaspar Hauser really the missing crown prince of Baden? When an eccentric duke built a tunnel complex beneath his estate, who is to say he didn't have a second life as a shopkeeper in London?

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Review:

"[An] engrossing collection of famous unsolved mysteries of disputed identity such as the Tichborne Claimant and the lost dauphin." - Star Ratings, The Bookseller

About the Author:

Jan Bondeson is the author of numerous books, including the "enthralling... must-read" (Maggie McDonald, New Scientist) Buried Alive (Norton). He is a professor at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0393019691
• ISBN 13: 9780393019698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320