Clicko : the wild dancing bushman / Neil Parsons ; foreword by Andrew McCall Smith.

  • Parsons, Neil.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Physical description

xv, 254 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes

Originally published: Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2009.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Growing up in the snow mountains -- Recruited at Kimberley -- Enter Paddy Hepston -- Disappearance to Australasia or the far east? -- The dancing bushman in London -- Dancing in Cambridge and Paris -- Hiding from humanitarians -- Margate rendezvous -- From Dublin to Havana -- Coney Island and Havana again -- Joining Barnum and Bailey's circus -- Kidnap in Connecticut -- "I am an American gentleman" -- Sam Gumpertz takes over -- High life with Frank and Evelyn -- "I inherited a bushman" -- California interlude -- The great terminal dance.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Taibosh)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780226647418
  • 0226647412
  • 9780226647425
  • 0226647420