Abandoned Insane Asylums

by Dinah Williams and Troy Taylor

What secrets are buried within the crumbling walls of old asylums for the insane? Readers will get a glimpse of what these nightmare facilities were like before the dawn of the modern era. From the wretched overcrowding of London's Bethlem Royal Hospital (which inspired the English word bedlam), where citizens could pay a penny for the pleasure of poking "lunatics" through the hospital's bars with sticks, to Christian Church Hospital in Kansas City...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597165751
• ISBN13: 9781597165754
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Bearport Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8