Non-Fiction: The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan

Book: The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan

Author:Anne Renaud


Publisher: Cape Breton University Pres
s

Link: Silver Birch 2015

On a balmy August morning in 1846, a child was born to Ann and Alexander Swan in the couple’s small wood cabin in Millbrook, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. This in itself was not odd, as home was where babies were most often born in the mid-19th century. What was surprising, however, was that Anna Swan weighed an amazing 6 kilograms (13 pounds) – almost twice the size of an average newborn.
Anna Swan grew to an astonishing size – nearly 2.5 meters (almost 8 feet) tall... Click link to read MORE!

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