Edward Brooke-Hitching: The Crackpot Compendium, Gebunden
The Crackpot Compendium
- A mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers
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- Verlag:
- Simon & Schuster Ltd, 10/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781398532427
- Umfang:
- 272 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 8.10.2026
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A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers.
Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly 'outside-the-box' thinkers.
Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake-predicting plants and leech barometers, cat pianos and canine translation devices, immortal adventurers, cities spotted on the Moon and aliens living on the Sun. This colossal collection travels the world and across the millennia to take in telepathic Soviet circus clowns, Scottish abominable snowmen, Welsh prophets, ancient Chinese test pilots, invisible African mountains, and the aviator known as 'Wrong Way' Corrigan who accidentally flew backwards across the Atlantic.
If you have ever wondered how to build a pigeon death-ray, start a snake cult with a hand-puppet, interrogate a houseplant or perform psychic surgery, The Crackpot Compendium will provide the answers (while also probably leaving you with a few new questions.)