Code: 09281927

Great British Eccentrics

Name: Great British Eccentrics
Brand: Amberley Publishing
SKU: 09281927
Price: 18.10 EUR
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Author: Steven Tucker
ISBN: 9781445647708

by Steven Tucker

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Amberley Publishing, 2015
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Book synopsis

These islands have long been a stronghold of eccentricity and peculiar behaviour. For whatever reason, eccentricity seems to have been enthusiastically embraced as being one of the defining characteristics of the British people, one of the many things have become part of our national identity. Is it our status as an island people, set apart from the rest of the world, that has made so many of our countrymen turn in on themselves and go a little strange? Has our long libertarian tradition of the idea of the freedom of the individual to live his own life as he pleases, just so long as he does no harm to anybody else, allowed weirdness to flourish within our land? Or is there just something dodgy in the water? There are probably plenty of reasons, but one thing is for certain; historically, this country has produced some of the strangest people who have ever lived, and in this book Steven Tucker compiles the details of both some of the most well-known and the most obscure oddballs ever to have been eligible to hold a British passport. From the psychiatrist who acclaimed lobsters as being capable of love, to the mermaid-impersonating vicar who invented the Harvest Festival, to the mad aristocrat who invented a tiny gun for shooting wasps with, this wild ride through our history's most colourful characters will both amuse and entertain.