John Lloyd: Qi the Book of the Dead
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- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Faber & Faber
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780571324118
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- Suosituksia: 9 kpl
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The QI Book of the Dead is, in fact, a book about life, and lives: we have selected six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from history — the immortally famous and the undeservedly obscure — to share their secrets, celebrate their wisdom, learn from their mistakes, and marvel at their bad taste in clothes. It includes: Hans Christian Anderson was terrified of naked women; Florence Nightingale spent her last fifty years in bed; Sigmund Freud smoked twenty cigars a day; Catherine de Medici applied a daily face mask made of pigeon dung; Rembrandt van Rijn died penniless; and Madame Mao banned cicadas, rustling noises and pianos.