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SCAMS! reveals 10 true tales of trickery that will mesmerize young readers. They will discover how the Germans planned to destroy the British economy during World War II by flooding the world with millions of fake British bank-notes.
SCAMS! also includes:
- The Tasady: Stone Age cavemen of the Philippines
- The Shakespearean forgery of William Ireland
- P.T. Barnum and his greatest show on earth
- The creation of the Bibliotheca Phillipica
- Le Grand Theresa
- John Keely’s engine
- Karl May’s extraordinary fiction
Readers of any age will be enthralled by these stories of trickery exposed, where the strange twists and turns truly test the limits of credulity.
SCAMS! also includes:
- The Tasady: Stone Age cavemen of the Philippines
- The Shakespearean forgery of William Ireland
- P.T. Barnum and his greatest show on earth
- The creation of the Bibliotheca Phillipica
- Le Grand Theresa
- John Keely’s engine
- Karl May’s extraordinary fiction
Readers of any age will be enthralled by these stories of trickery exposed, where the strange twists and turns truly test the limits of credulity.
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Andreas Schroeder
Andreas Schroeder is a Canadian novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer. In addition to his twenty-three books, his writing has also been published in over a hundred North American anthologies and magazines. Shaking It Rough: A Prison Memoir was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, and the original edition of Dustship Glory was nominated for the Seal First Novel Award. He lives in the village of Roberts Creek on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.
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