The Most Interesting Book in the World

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Beschreibung

<b>'Charming, hilarious, and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party. Or the most annoying' - Adam Rutherford</b><br><br><b>‘Weird and wonderful facts you didn’t know you needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia’ - <i>Sun</i></b><br><br><b>‘Joyously bizarre facts in a new book from a <i>QI </i>brainbox’ - <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>Drawn from a former BBC <i>QI</i> Elf's </b><b>lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, <i>The Most Interesting Book in The World</i> is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. </b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> In it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:<br> <ul><li>Why is a cat technically a liquid and a solid?</li><li>How did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens?</li><li>Why did the Dutch once eat their prime minister?</li></ul> <br> 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 rode sheep; or practical advice for correctly exorcising a house and casting ancient love spells, along with recent scientific discoveries like the mould that can navigate a maze and that humans can glow in the dark.<br> <br> A unique hybrid of encyclopaedia, trivia and drunken-bar raconteur, all stitched together in one colossal Frankenstein volume packed full of images and photographs - this is the ultimate must-read for anyone looking to tickle the cortex of their curiosity.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781398532373

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

220 x 140 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon + Schuster UK