The Man Who Ate Bluebottles...and Other Great British Eccentrics (paperback)
UK £6.99,Canada $15.00,
UK Publication September 2006
ISBN 9781840467772
Paperback
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‘Catherine Caufield has shown us that eccentrics are fascinating characters … they add to the gaiety of nations and it would be sad to see them fade away’ Patrick Moore, Daily Express
‘A compelling read that praises our individual idiosyncrasies’ Big Issue
‘Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze’ Fortean Times
‘A hilarious compilation … not to be missed’ Good Book Guide
Until he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI.
The Comtesse de Noailles was a keen believer in the benefits of fresh air and methane gas, keeping cows tethered near her open windows so that she could enjoy both ?
These and a hundred other colourful characters populate the pages of this delightful illustrated survey of British peculiarities through the ages.
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Catherine Caufield is a writer and environmentalist. She has written for New Scientist, London Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian, and lives in West Marin, California.
See more books by: Catherine Caufield
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