"Eventually everybody's story ends". Even the super rich, super famous, and the super royal. Many of them met their ends in less than super fashion. The journey through awful ends if not pretty nor for the easily nauseated. Whether you are the father of our country dying from an infection in your mouth or Pocahontas suffering from tuberculosis, death is not pretty.
While most of the ways these people died might not seem like that fatal, learning about the steps taken to try to save them is downright deadly. Cupping, bleeding, blistering, and the use of leeches were all
widely used treatments guaranteed to have the same result- untimely death.
Complete with whimsical caricature illustrations by Kevin O'Malley, How they croaked will make readers laugh as well as cringe. Georgia Bragg's unique style is what makes this non-fiction book seem like an adventure through a sarcastic, witty valley of death. Bragg's enthusiasm and sharp tongue will have readers cringing one moment and laughing out loud the next.
For more strange but true historical facts from Georgia Bragg check out her follow up book How they choked: failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous.
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