Edward Brooke-Hitching
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Author Love: A Curious History... (Oct 23), Madman's Library (Times Lit Book of the Year), Phantom Atlas etc. Ex long-serving QI Elf. RGS Fellow. Agent Charlie Campbell @ Greyhound Literary.
Need a Valentine's Day gift? Give them Austrian women's armpits, catapulting Corsicans, parrot-riding gods, caveman snogging, zombie queens, and the love story that left the solar system... www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Love-A...
February 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Need a Valentine's Day gift? Give them Austrian women's armpits, catapulting Corsicans, parrot-riding gods, caveman snogging, zombie queens, and the love story that left the solar system... www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Love-A...
The "Great Sea of the West", taking up half of the USA. A giant imaginary northern feature drawn on maps like Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes(1750) by de l’Isle and Buache. It was based on the dodgy account of Juan de Fuca, a Greek sailor who probably never actually existed.
October 5, 2023 at 8:38 AM
The "Great Sea of the West", taking up half of the USA. A giant imaginary northern feature drawn on maps like Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes(1750) by de l’Isle and Buache. It was based on the dodgy account of Juan de Fuca, a Greek sailor who probably never actually existed.
Marchesa Luisa Casati in 1922, muse of artists like Man Ray. To make an impression at a party she commissioned a plug-in dress with hundreds of tiny electric bulbs, that short-circuited and gave her such a shock that the blast caused her to somersault backwards
September 28, 2023 at 9:18 AM
Marchesa Luisa Casati in 1922, muse of artists like Man Ray. To make an impression at a party she commissioned a plug-in dress with hundreds of tiny electric bulbs, that short-circuited and gave her such a shock that the blast caused her to somersault backwards