Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+++. Reprint/First Printing. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. This book is filled with true tales of true eccentrics. They include such people as Lady Blount who believes the earth is flat; Cyrus Teed who thinks the earth is a hollow shell with the earth's population living inside; Baron Guldenstubbe who is convinced statues write him letters; Geoffrey Pike who invents a battleship made of ice. And that's just the beginning. 240 pages including index. B&W photos and illustrations.Dust jacket has a couple of mended tears along upper back edge -- tear has produced a bit of crinkling. Rest of book and jacket are great.

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Titolo

Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions

Editore

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publicshers, 1999, New York

Data di pubblicazione

1999

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

1579122280

ISBN 13

9781579122287

Rilegatura

Hard Cover

Edizione

Reprint/First Printing

Condizione

Near Fine

Condizione della sovraccoperta

Very Good+++

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The passionately misguided individuals profiled in this entertaining book form an unforgettable portrait of human imagination run wild.

Never has so much energy been poured into such oddly misbegotten ideas, inventions, enterprises and movements. The 22 individuals and groups described here with wit and understanding represent the widest range of true eccentricity. Lady Blount believes that the earth is flat; Cyrus Teed, that it is a hollow shell with us on the inside; Baron de Guldenstubbe that statues write him letters. Nesta Webster devotes her life to exposing international conspiracies; John Carden to pestering one young lady. Geoffrey Pyke invents a giant battleship made of ice; and Amanda Feilding and Joey Mellen live in peace and prosperity after drilling holes in their heads. The peculiarities of their beliefs are surpassed only by the boundless enthusiasm with which they defend them, and their stories are all here, told in John Michell's lively prose and accompanied by historic photographs and drawings.

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Book by Michell John

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