We all have a sneaking admiration for people who know the names of
every British Prime Minister, and most of us would be interested to
know exactly what ingredients go into a Big Mac. This book is
packed with the sort of fascinating trivia you feel you should
know, and it contains wonderful lists of knowledge you wish you
could memorize for the purpose of impressing others, subtly
dropping snippets into casual conversation. This book boasts such a
varied, far-reaching coverage of information that the mind truly
boggles, and no sooner have you put the book down then you find
yourself picking it back up again. Think you know all Ten
Commandments and each of the Seven Deadly Sins? Can you list 86
Cockney Rhyming Slang terms? Did you know what was on the dinner
menu the night the Titanic sank? The information seems both
essential and useless, and can be either, which is why trivia is so
addictive. The Clothing Care symbols and Shakespearean Insults are
likely to be useful and amusing respectively, but will your friends
and family thank you for your knowledge of the Curious Deaths of
Some Burmese Kings? And it may be pleasant to know how to say 'I
love you' in 43 different languages but unless you like to seduce
far and wide you'll never need to know, and the same goes for the
names of the suppliers to the Queen; it may not be particularly
useful information but it's strangely interesting, and this is why
this book is such a success. Perfect as a gift, to yourself or
anyone else. (Kirkus UK)
Schott's Miscellany makes few claims to be exhaustive or even practical. It does, however, claim to be essential. It will afford you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an enlightened smile after dark.
Where else can you find, packed on to one page, the thirteen principles of witchcraft, the structure of military hierarchy, all of the clothing care symbols, a list of the countries where you drive on the left, and a nursery rhyme about sneezing? Where else, but Schott's Miscellany, will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple?
An encyclopaedia? A dictionary? An almanac? An anthology? A treasury? An amphigouri? A commonplace? A vade-mecum? Well — yes. Schott's Miscellany is all these, and, of course, more.
Read more about the author, a selection of samples from the Miscellany, and sign up for the Schott’s monthly newsletter, all on the Schott's Original Miscellany pages.
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