The man who ate bluebottles : and other great British eccentrics
Caufield, Catherine2005
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Caufield recounts the tales of eccentric and peculiar individuals in this compendium of unusual British lives, ranging from a man who ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI to a man who observed the births of his own children in a vain attempt to prove babies were born with tails.
Main title:
The man who ate bluebottles : and other great British eccentrics / Catherine Caufield ; illustrated by Peter Till.
Author:
Imprint:
Thriplow : Icon, 2005.
Collation:
viii, 223 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-220).
ISBN:
9781840466973 (hbk)
Dewey class:
920.041
Language:
English
BRN:
347179