Book description
Great eccentrics have fizzed and sparkled through history like catherine wheels, delighting and amazing us with their outrageous lifestyles, barmy ideas and flamboyant ways.
Gathered together in this book is a rich gallery of some of the most astonishing crackpots the world has ever known, such as the naturalist who served his guests mice on buttered toast, and the Cornish vicar who pretended to be a mermaid.
Margaret Nicholas, a top British journalist, researched the material for this book during her travels around the world. She has three loves: her family, bridge and crackpots.
