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Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics

Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics

by WilliamDonaldson (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.26
Synopsis

'The funniest book of the year, and quite possibly of all time' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday Everyone loves a rogue. Take Louis de Rougemont, pearl diver, alligator hunter and King of the Cannibals, who was allegedly shipwrecked off the coast of New Guinea and survived by clinging to the tail of the ship's dog. Or Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne, who tired of waiting for heavenly rewards and became a swashbuckling pirate, rumoured to have employed Dick Turpin as his butler. From assassins and arsonists to hell-raisers and highwaymen, plus an array of poisoners, strumpets, quacks, and forgers, BREWER'S, ROGUES, VILLAINS and ECCENTRICS is a hugely entertaining miscellany of bizarre Britons through the ages. Including the famous, infamous and downright dangerous, you couldn't ask for a better gallery of Britain's most outrageous characters.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 686
 Edition: 1st Phoenix Edition
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 0753817918
ISBN 13: 9780753817919
Book Overview: The perfect Christmas present for the cad in your life! 'A work of maniacal genius' Hywel Williams, Guardian 'If you are curious to know who bottle-fed a porpoise in a railway waiting room, or which king died after being bitten by a monkey, or whose feet were cut off so that he could fit into his sarcophagus or which hangman later became a hairdresser, then this book is for you. It will make a good bog-book, with oodles of human quiddity and notoriety to detain you' Christopher Silvester, THE EXPRESS 'I have not laughed so much in years' Byron Rogers, THE SPECTATOR 'In this breathtaking triumph of misdirected scholarship, Donaldson has found the ideal outlet for his splenetic wit and healthy disrespect for the great and the good' Robert Chalmers, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Media Reviews
Reading this entrancing compendium on public transport would be misguided, as the regular yaps of laughter are liable to infuriate your fellow passengers. THE GUARDIAN This is my first tip for stardom in the Christmas present league. -- DAILY RECORD 'What makes his crackpot scholarship so beguiling is the fine line between heedless heroism and shameless hedonism that wobbles through so many mini-biographies. THE INDEPENDENT
Author Bio
Willie Donaldson has led an extraordinary and colourful life - from his privileged public-school eduction to an untidy lifestyle in the company of pop stars, actors, models and others. He is the author of the various volumes in the 'Henry Root' series and of numerous other humorous titles.