The Man Who Ate Bluebottles by Catherine Caufield

The Man Who Ate Bluebottles by Catherine Caufield

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The Man Who Ate Bluebottles by Catherine Caufield

'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 hilarious compilation ... not to be missed' Good Book Guide'Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze' Fortean TimesUntil 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. William, and a hundred other colourful characters populate the pages of this amusing survey of those strange British people through the ages.
Catherine Caufield is a writer and environmentalist. She has written for the New Scientist, the London Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian, and lives in West Marin, California.
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ISBN 13 9781840467772
ISBN 10 1840467770
Titel The Man Who Ate Bluebottles
Autor Catherine Caufield
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Icon Books
Erscheinungsjahr 2006-09-07
Seitenanzahl 224
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