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Drawn from a former BBC QI Elf'slifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are.
 
This remarkable treasury of tales and trivia will whisk you on a jaw-dropping journey through time and space, stopping off to marvel at only the obscure, the startling and the straight-up weird.
 
In it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:
 
  • Why is a cat technically a liquid and a solid?
  • How did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens?
  • Why did the Dutch once eat their prime minister?  
 
Nowhere else will you find woven together the stories of the religious leader who attempted to build a robot messiah from a dining table, the anti-gravity ‘air-walkers’ of Victorian London, and the pirates who r

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Drawn from a former BBC QI Elf'slifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World... Read more

    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
    Publication Date: 10/10/2024
    ISBN13: 9781398532373, 978-1398532373
    ISBN10: 1398532371

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

    Description

    Drawn from a former BBC QI Elf'slifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are.
     
    This remarkable treasury of tales and trivia will whisk you on a jaw-dropping journey through time and space, stopping off to marvel at only the obscure, the startling and the straight-up weird.
     
    In it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:
     
    • Why is a cat technically a liquid and a solid?
    • How did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens?
    • Why did the Dutch once eat their prime minister?  
     
    Nowhere else will you find woven together the stories of the religious leader who attempted to build a robot messiah from a dining table, the anti-gravity ‘air-walkers’ of Victorian London, and the pirates who r

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