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Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopaedia of Useless Information
William Hartston
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Description for Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopaedia of Useless Information
Hardback. Finding the answers to questions you'd never thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. Organised alphabetically and cross referenced, this work features hilarious entries. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: GBA; WDKX; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 115 x 40. Weight in Grams: 445.
Useless information - we can't get enough of it. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new book of trivia, a new web page, a new column in the newspaper, all containing a wealth of fascinatingly useless tidbits. Finding the answers to questions you'd never thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is always a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. But this is no ordinary list of random facts. Unlike other books of useless information, it is organised alphabetically and full of cross references so that ... Read more
Useless information - we can't get enough of it. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new book of trivia, a new web page, a new column in the newspaper, all containing a wealth of fascinatingly useless tidbits. Finding the answers to questions you'd never thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is always a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. But this is no ordinary list of random facts. Unlike other books of useless information, it is organised alphabetically and full of cross references so that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843581604
SKU
V9781843581604
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99-50
About William Hartston
William Hartston read Mathematics at Cambridge and is the author of many chess books, while his interest in useless information has given rise to The Drunken Goldfish (a tribute to useless academic research), How Was It For You, Professor (a book on academic sex research), Odd Dates Only (a book of weird anniversaries) and The Book of Numbers (a collection ... Read more
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