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  The Man Who Ate Bluebottles: And Other Great British Eccentrics (Paperback) By (author) Catherine Caufield, Illustrated by Peter Till

  

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  Short Description for The Man Who Ate Bluebottles'Catherine Caufield has shown us that eccentrics are fascinating characters ... they add to the gaiety of nations and it would be sad to see them fade away' Patrick Moore, Daily Express'A hilarious compilation ... not to be missed' Good Book Guide'Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze' Fortean TimesUntil he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole...
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  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
  • Published: 30 October 2006
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: British & Irish History | Social & Cultural History | Humour | Humour Collections & Anthologies
  • ISBN 13: 9781840467772 ISBN 10: 1840467770

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• 'Catherine Caufield has shown us that eccentrics are fascinating characters ... they add to the gaiety of nations and it would be sad to see them fade away' Patrick Moore, Daily Express'A hilarious compilation ... not to be missed' Good Book Guide'Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze' Fortean TimesUntil he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI. William, and a hundred other colourful characters populate the pages of this amusing survey of those strange British people through the ages.