Name: Hottentot Venus
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Author: Chase-Riboud, Barbara
ISBN: 9781400032082

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Author

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13.2x2.3 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

1400032083

ISBN13

9781400032082

Edition No.

58502nd

Synopsis "Hottentot Venus"

It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry's ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon's physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such "monster" tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an "invisible" of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life.

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