Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: February 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781579122287
Subjects: Biography: general; General; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; USA; Specific Groups - General; United States - General; Biography; Curiosities and wonders; Eccentrics and eccentricities
First sentence: The woodcock is hard to shoot because of its zig-zag flight, and Mr John Rutter Carden of Barnane Castle, Tipperary, was generally known as Woodcock Carden because he also seemed impervious to gunshot.