Eccentric lives and peculiar notions
By: John Michell.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal; Distributed by Workman
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography; Curiosities and wonders
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-237) and index.
Originally published: London : Thames & Hudson, 1984.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: A dreadfully persistent lover; title: 7; title: The strange adventure of a Somerset genealogist; title: 17; title: Loyalists of the flat earth; title: 21; title: The community that dwelt within the earth; title: 41; title: The diehard priest who opposed capitalism; title: 51; title: A most conservative M.P. and the royal boycott of Lincoln; title: 57; title: The first lady of conspiratology; title: 62; title: The man who got letters from statues; title: 75; title: Two unusual landowners; title: 78; title: The consolation of a jilted Latvian; title: 84; title: The judge who visited wild men; title: 97; title: A crusader for thoroughbred people; title: 107; title: The inventor of frozen battleships; title: 116; title: The last of the old Welsh Druids; title: 123; title: Jerusalem in Scotland and other findings of a revisionist geographer; title: 136; title: The people with holes in their heads; title: 144; title: Bibliomaniacs; title: 153; title: Jews, Britons and the lost tribes of Israel; title: 163; title: Doubts on Shakespeare, and a Baconian martyr; title: 178; title: Congressman Donnelly, the great heretic; title: 201; title: Shakespearean decoders and the Baconian treasure hunt; title: 212; title: Eminent ufologists; title: 226.