The Crackpot Compendium
A mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers
$31.19
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history’s most eccentric thinkers.
Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly ‘outside-the-box’ thinkers.
Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake-predicting plants and leech barometers, cat pianos and canine translation dev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398532427 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1398532428 |
| Author: | Edward Brooke-Hitching |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm |
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About The Author
Edward Brooke-Hitching
Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books:
- The Phantom Atlas (2016)
- The Golden Atlas (2018)
- The Sky Atlas (2019)
- The Madman’s Library (2020)
- The Devil’s Atlas (2021)
All of his books have been translated into numerous languages. He is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015).
He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire.
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