The Mammoth Book of Oddballs and Eccentrics

by Karl Shaw

Paperback, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

CT9990 .S43

Genres

Publication

Carroll & Graf (2000), 512 pages

Description

This text offers a collection of anecdotes of crackpots, visionaries, despots, prophets, performers, royals, political leaders, inventors, philosophers, writers, artists and just plain eccentrics and their assortment of phobias and habits.

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

512 p.; 7.75 inches

ISBN

0786707240 / 9780786707249

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