Encounters With Wild Children

Temptation And Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature

by Adriana S. Benzaquen

2006 393 pages eng

"Since the early seventeenth century, stories of encounters with strange children in unusual circumstances have been recorded, circulated, and reproduced in Europe and North America not simply as myths, legends, or good tabloid copy but as occurrences deserving serious scrutiny by philosophers and s…