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Book of General Ignorance

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ISBN-10: 0307394913

ISBN-13: 9780307394910

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, "The Book of General Ignorance" is a witty "gotcha" compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It'll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school. …    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/7/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.97" wide x 8.51" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and now runs Unbound. He's with Einstein: 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'

John Lloyd produced Not the Nine O'Clock New, the Blackadders, and Spitting Image.