Cal Ripken, Jr. by J Campbell
This stunning novel combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history's most famous conjoined twins. Born in Siam in 1811--on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River--Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Touring the world's stages as a circus act, they settled in the American South just prior to the Civil War. They eventually married two sisters from North Carolina, fathering twenty-one children between them, and lived for more than six decades never more than seven inches apart, attached at the chest by a small band of skin and cartilage. Woven from the fabric of fact, myth, and imagination, Strauss's narrative gives poignant, articulate voice to these legendary brothers, and humanizes the freakish legend that grew up around them. Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the King of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, Chang and Eng rescues one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary lives a novel of exceptional power and beauty.Snyder County s Sports Legacy, their third Snyder County book, was co-authored by Jim Campbell, a member of the Pro Football Writers of America, and the Snyder County Historical Society. The Snyder County Historical Society benefits from book sales.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780791043806 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791043800 |
| Title | Cal Ripken, Jr. |
| Author | J Campbell |
| Series | Baseball Legends S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Chelsea House Publishers |
| Year published | 1997-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |