
Whose Uncle Was Bob?
The Odd, the Unexpected and the Inessential
Ian Crofton(Author)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-297-85356-5 (ISBN)
Description
This will appeal to the SCHOTT'S ORIGINAL MISCELLANY market, but it provides many more facts, and on a much wider range of topics. Fascinating, entertaining and intriguing, WHOSE UNCLE WAS BOB? is an irresistible mix of bizarre and out-of-the-way information, with a strong phrase-and-fable slant, but also including anecdotes, odd news reports, quotations, superstitions, tall tales and frankly unbelievable truths. The structure, to suit the leisurely dipper-in, is thematic, with nine main sections, with many subdivisions, features, lists, etc., together with a generous smattering of illustrations of the unexpected, the unlikely and the really quite extraordinary. Includes the full story of Cardinal Richelieu's cats and reveals when carrots were purple...and why frogs explode.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-297-85356-5 (9780297853565)
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Person
Ian Crofton has compiled many works of reference, books of quotations and miscellanies over the yers, including A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (with Donald Fraser), A Dictionary of Art Quotations, The Guinness Encyclopedia (as editor-in-chief), Brewer's Dictionary of Curious Titles, and, with John Ayto Brewer's Britain and Ireland and the 2nd edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable. He lives in North London.