Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

Shark-Fishing on the Coast of Florida

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Shark-Fishing on the Coast of Florida

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Shark-Fishing on the Coast of Florida: Sharks

It is a fortunate circumstance, for those The South Sea islanders are not in the who avoid its attacks, that its mouth is so least afraid…

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