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Eccentric lives and peculiar notions
by John F. Michell
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1999
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Black Dog & Leventhal,
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English
Pages
240
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: A dreadfully persistent lover
7
The strange adventure of a Somerset genealogist
17
Loyalists of the flat earth
21
The community that dwelt within the earth
41
The diehard priest who opposed capitalism
51
A most conservative M.P. and the royal boycott of Lincoln
57
The first lady of conspiratology
62
The man who got letters from statues
75
Two unusual landowners
78
The consolation of a jilted Latvian
84
The judge who visited wild men
97
A crusader for thoroughbred people
107
The inventor of frozen battleships
116
The last of the old Welsh Druids
123
Jerusalem in Scotland and other findings of a revisionist geographer
136
The people with holes in their heads
144
Bibliomaniacs
153
Jews, Britons and the lost tribes of Israel
163
Doubts on Shakespeare, and a Baconian martyr
178
Congressman Donnelly, the great heretic
201
Shakespearean decoders and the Baconian treasure hunt
212
Eminent ufologists
226.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-237) and index.
Originally published: London : Thames & Hudson, 1984.
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