Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics by Karl Shaw

Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics

Karl Shaw

304 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history funny lighthearted medium-paced
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An 18th-century French scholar attributed the British talent for eccentricity to a "mixture of fogs, beef, and beer . . . aggravated by the tedium of the English Sunday." Whatever the reason, the British Isles do seem to have thrown up more than t...

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