Author: Brooke-Hitching, Edward
General & world history
Published on 10 October 2024 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 320 pages
142 x 224 x 27 | 376g
'Charming, hilarious, and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party. Or the most annoying' - Adam RutherfordDrawn from a former BBC QI Elf's lifetimes search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. ' This remarkable treasury of tales and trivia will whisk you on a jaw-dropping journey through time and space, stopping off to marvel at only the obscure, the startling and the straight-up weird.
' In it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:' Why is a cat technically a liquid and a solid? How did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens? Why did the Dutch once eat their prime minister? ' Nowhere else will you find woven together the stories of the religious leader who attempted to build a robot messiah from a dining table, the anti-gravity'˜air-walkers of Victorian London, and the pirates who rode sheep; or practical advice for correctly exorcising a house and casting ancient love spells, along with recent scientific discoveries like the mould that can navigate a maze and that humans can glow in the dark.
' A unique hybrid of encyclopaedia, trivia and drunken-bar raconteur, all stitched together in one colossal Frankenstein volume packed full of images and photographs - this is the ultimate must-read for anyone looking to tickle the cortex of their curiosity.