The Exotics: Being A Collection Of Unique Personalities And Remarkable Characters - Bishop, Morris

The Exotics: Being A Collection Of Unique Personalities And Remarkable Characters by Bishop, Morris

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by American Heritage Press, 1969

The Exotics profiles 21 "exotic" individuals—people who were eccentric, weird, or otherwise remarkable figures from various times and places.

Profiles include the Admirable Crichton, A 16th-century Scottish polymath; La Rochefoucauld, the cynical French author of famous maxims; Captain Tew, a notorious pirate; Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man to serve in the Continental Army; John Humphrey Noyes, The founder of the Oneida Community who advocated for "Bible Communism"; David Bushnell, The inventor of an early submarine in 1776; Axel Fersen, Known as the "lover" of Marie Antoinette.

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