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GESELL, ARNOLD. - Wolf Child and Human Child. The Life History of Kamala, The Wolf Girl.
London: Methuen and Co.Ltd, 1941. 1st British edition. Based on the diary account of a child who was reared by a wolf and who then lived for nine years in the Orphanage of Midnapore in the province of Bengal. "The strange and remarkable story of Kamala, the Bengali Wolf girl, who in early infancy was carried off by a she-wolf to its lair. There this child gradually acquired the ways of the wolf, until eight years later, when a kindly missionary discovered her. Taken to an orphanage in Midnapore she was slowly brought back to human ways, so that by the time of her death at the age of seventeen she had attained many of the characteristics of a normal child." Pp.xvi/95, 8 pages of collotype illustrations + 4 line illustrations, owner's name to front free endpaper, mild spotting to closed page edges. Red cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with edge tears and small losses to top and tail of spine. G+/G.
GBP 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 26 US$ 28.03 | JP¥ 4409] Booknumber: 42021
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