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Author : S. D. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Great British Eccentrics written by S. D. Tucker and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with History categories.
An entertaining guide to the most eccentric characters from British history
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Author : Rod Smith
language : de
Publisher: Ernst Klett Sprachen
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Great British Eccentrics written by Rod Smith and has been published by Ernst Klett Sprachen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with categories.
The Man Who Ate Bluebottles
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Author : Catherine Caufield
language : en
Publisher: Totem Books
Release Date : 2006
The Man Who Ate Bluebottles written by Catherine Caufield and has been published by Totem Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Catherine Caufield has shown us that eccentrics are fascinating characters ... they add to the gaiety of nations and it would be sad to see them fade away' Patrick Moore, Daily Express'A hilarious compilation ... not to be missed' Good Book Guide'Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze' Fortean TimesUntil he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI. William, and a hundred other colourful characters populate the pages of this amusing survey of those strange British people through the ages.
Curing Hiccups With Small Fires
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Author : Karl Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-09-04
Curing Hiccups With Small Fires written by Karl Shaw and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-04 with Humor categories.
'The English aristocrat John 'Mad Jack' Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the horribly burned Mytton slumped into unconsciousness he said, "Well, the hiccups is gone, by God."' An 18th-century French scholar attributed the British talent for eccentricity to a ‘mixture of fogs, beef and beer...aggravated by the tedium of the English Sunday’. Whatever the reason, the British Isles do seem to have thrown up more than their fair share of magnificent oddballs, the finest of which are profiled in this fast, funny celebration of over 200 aristocrats, inventors, artists and the just plain weird... * Dr Samuel Johnson is said to have shaved off all of his bodily hair, just to see how long it would take to grow back * Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, once related an experience he had at Westminster: 'I had a horrid nightmare. I dreamed I was making a speech in the House of Lords, and woke up to find I actually was.' * Percy Bysshe Shelley once tied a cat to a kite in a thunder storm to see if it would be electrocuted
Bright Particular Stars
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Author : David McKie
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Bright Particular Stars written by David McKie and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Social Science categories.
In Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of twenty-six remarkable British eccentrics on twenty-six unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in the world, to Kilwinning in Scotland, where in 1839 the Earl of Eglinton mounted a tournament that was Renaissance in its extravagance and disastrous in its execution, McKie leads us to places transformed, inspired and sometimes scandalized by the obsessional endeavours of visionary mavericks. Some of McKie's eccentrics, such as Mary Macarthur, who helped the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath win the right to a fair wage in 1910, were good to the point of saintliness; others, including the composer Peter Heseltine, who in the 1920s set net curtains twitching by his hard drinking and naked motorbike riding, rather less so. But together their fascinating stories illuminate some of the most secret and most extraordinary byways of our national and local history. In Bright Particular Stars quiet, unassuming streetscapes become sites of eccentric and uproarious sites of action. The triumphs and failures of the visionaries who thus transformed them - recaptured here by David McKie in vivid and beguiling fashion - have each, in their own way, helped shape our island's rich and chequered history.
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities
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Author : John Timbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities written by John Timbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Characters and characteristics categories.
English Eccentrics
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Author : Edith Sitwell
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-16
English Eccentrics written by Edith Sitwell and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Eccentrics" by Edith Sitwell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
In Search Of The English Eccentric
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Author : Henry Hemming
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-02
In Search Of The English Eccentric written by Henry Hemming and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Humor categories.
The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his entertaining and thought-provoking quest to discover the most eccentric English person alive today, Henry Hemming unearths a surprisingly large array of delightfully odd characters. He asks what it is to be an eccentric. Is it simply to thrive on creativity and non-conformity, and where does this incarnation of Englishness stem from? Hemming concludes that this tribe is, in fact, in rude health, as essential as ever to the English national identity, only they are no longer to be found where you'd expect them.
A Book Of British Eccentrics
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Author : Raymond Lamont-Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
A Book Of British Eccentrics written by Raymond Lamont-Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities
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Author : John Timbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities written by John Timbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Characters and characteristics categories.