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Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics
Curing Hiccups with Small Fires A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics
Author: Karl Shaw
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 celebr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780752227030
ISBN-10: 0752227033
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Macmillan UK
Book Type: Paperback
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