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The QI Book of the Dead
John Mitchinson
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Description for The QI Book of the Dead
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some minor shelf wear
' The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless' - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and ... Read more
' The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless' - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571244904
SKU
KAK0008152
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Mitchinson
John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. If pressed, he'd concur with Heraclitus: 'abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.' John Mitchinson is from the world of books. ... Read more
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