History Without the Boring Bits: Amusing Chronology of the World by Ian Crofton
Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting stories to tell - stories that don't usually get into the history books, but which can nevertheless bring the past vividly and excitingly to life.
Imagine instead a book that tells you about the Roman law that lifted the ban on breaking wind at banquets… about the ‘Cadaver Synod’, at which the putrefying corpse of a medieval pope was put on trial for past crimes… about the Nazi expedition to find a subterranean race of super-humans in Tibet… not to mention the first goat to circumnavigate the globe - twice. Imagine a book crammed with such deliciously unnecessary but strangely compelling information and you have History without the Boring Bits.
By turns bizarre, surprising, engaging and enlightening, "History Without the Boring Bits" offers an endlessly browsable cornucopia of curiosities for those who have grown weary of more conventional works of history. Hardback 362 pages. By Ian Crofton
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