This treasury of Victorian eccentrics celebrates the pioneers who marched to their own drummers–straight into oblivion, for they’ve been all but ignored by ‘straight’ historians. You’ll meet

• The ‘worst’ character ever to walk earlyday Victoria streets

• The man who claimed to own all of Esquimalt

• The woman who sang with a broken heart

• The man who was literally haunted by his past

• Madame Bendixen, ‘Pilly Parlow,’ ‘Whisky John,’ ‘Billy the Bug’ and a host of other colourful and outrageous pioneers

170 pages.
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