Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions
Publisher: Citadel Pr
Published: June 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780806510316
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Nonfiction - General; Curiosities and wonders; Eccentrics and eccentricies; Biography; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Biography/Autobiography
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.