Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics

by Karl Shaw

Book Overview

An 18th-century French scholar attributed the British talent for eccentricity to a "mixture of fogs, beef, and beer . . . aggravated by the tedium of the English Sunday." Whatever the reason, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752227033
• ISBN13: 9780752227030
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Pan MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.