Schott's Original Miscellany Book

Schott's Miscellany makes few claims to be exhaustive or even practical. It does however claim to be essential. It will afford you great wisdom in the morning several conversational bons mots for the afternoon and many an enlightened smile after dark. Where else can you find packed on to one page the thirteen principles of witchcraft the structure of military hierarchy all of the clothing care symbols a list of the countries where you drive on the left and a nursery rhyme about sneezing? Where else but "Schott's Miscellany" will you stumble across John Lennon's cat the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? An encyclopaedia? A dictionary? An almanac? An anthology? A treasury? An amphigouri? A commonplace? A vade-mecum? Well - yes. "Schott's Original Miscellany" is all these and of course more. A book like no other "Schott's Original Miscellany" is entertaining informative unpredictable and utterly addictive.

Schott's Original Miscellany : Hardback : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC : 9780747563204 : : 04 Nov 2002 : Intends to provide you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an enlightened smile after dark. This book contains the 13 principles of witchcraft, the structure of military hierarchy, clothing care symbols, a list of the countries where you drive on the left, and a nursery rhyme about sneezing.