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American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the Worldby James ZugISBN 0465094058 (0-465-09405-8)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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AMOK Journal : Senssurround Edition, a Compendium of Physio-Psychological Investigationsby Stuart SwezeyISBN 187892303X (1-878923-03-X)
Hardcover, Amok Books
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The Aztec Treasure House: Selected Essaysby Evan S. ConnellISBN 1582432538 (1-58243-253-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aztec Treasure House: Selected Essays'Book summary:Here are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert, of the great explorers, eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. "There's no end to the list, of course," Connell says, "because gradually it descends from such legendary individuals to ourselves when, as children, obsessed by that same urge, we got permission to sleep in the backyard." [via]
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the Worldby Paul CollinsISBN 0312300336 (0-312-30033-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World'Book summary:The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated.[via]
Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different kind of book. Here are thirteen unforgettable portraits of forgotten people: men and women who might have claimed their share of renown but who, whether from ill timing, skullduggery, monomania, the tinge of madness, or plain bad luck-or perhaps some combination of them all-leapt straight from life into thankless obscurity. Among their number are scientists, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and adventurers, from across the centuries and around the world. They hold in common the silenced aftermath of failure, the name that rings no bells.
Collins brings them back to glorious life. John Banvard was an artist whose colossal panoramic canvasses (one behemoth depiction of the entire eastern shore of the Mississippi River was simply known as "The Three Mile Painting") made him the richest and most famous artist of his day. . . before he decided to go head to head with P. T. Barnum. René Blondot was a distinguished French physicist whose celebrated discovery of a new form of radiation, called the N-Ray, went terribly awry. At the tender age of seventeen, William Henry Ireland signed "William Shakespeare" to a book and launched a short but meteoric career as a forger of undiscovered works by the Bard -- until he pushed his luck too far. John Symmes, a hero of the War of 1812, nearly succeeded in convincing Congress to fund an expedition to the North Pole, where he intended to prove his theory that the earth was hollow and ripe for exploitation; his quixotic quest counted Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe among its greatest admirers.
Collins' love for what he calls the "forgotten ephemera of genius" give his portraits of these figures and the other nine men and women in Banvard's Folly sympathetic depth and poignant relevance. Their effect is not to make us sneer or revel in schadenfreude; here are no cautionary tales. Rather, here are brief introductions-acts of excavation and reclamation-to people whom history may have forgotten, but whom now we cannot.More editions of Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World:
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luckby Paul CollinsISBN 0312268866 (0-312-26886-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Beckford Of Fonthillby Brian FothergillISBN 1845880854 (1-84588-085-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Bizarre Booksby Russell Ash, Brian LakeISBN 186205102X (1-86205-102-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Black Bart Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Himby George HoeperISBN 1884995055 (1-884995-05-5)
Softcover, Word Dancer Press
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The Book of Snobsby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 3829031025 (3-8290-3102-5)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Agesby William DonaldsonISBN 0753817918 (0-7538-1791-8)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brewer's Rogues, Villains, and Eccentrics : An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages'Book summary:Presenting the Hall of Shame! Both entertaining and indiscreet, this dictionary of callous cads introduces a host of wildly colorful characters. Here are assassins and arsonists, hangmen and horse thieves, hell-raisers and highwaymen, not to mention an array of poisoners, quacks, and forgers. Meet Ronald Biggs, one of the participants of the Great Train Robby, and Julie Amiri, a thief who found being detained by policemen...very exciting. There's enough degradation, depravity, and dottiness to delight anyone. A Selection of the Readers Subscription Book Club.[via]More editions of Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages:
- Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages: ISBN 0304357286 (0-304-35728-6)
Hardcover, Cassell P L C - Brewer's Rogues, Villains, and Eccentrics : An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages: ISBN 0753817918 (0-7538-1791-8)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The British Eccentricby Elizabeth Drury, Harriet BridgemanISBN 0517524996 (0-517-52499-6)
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A Budget of Paradoxesby Augustus De MorganISBN 140672243X (1-4067-2243-X)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil Warby Tony HorwitzISBN 067975833X (0-679-75833-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War'Book summary:Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz returned from years of traipsing through war zones as a foreign correspondent only to find that his childhood obsession with the Civil War had caught up with him. Near his house in Virginia, he happened to encounter people who reenact the Civil War--men who dress up in period costumes and live as Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks. Intrigued, he wound up having some odd adventures with the "hardcores," the fellows who try to immerse themselves in the war, hoping to get what they lovingly term a "period rush." Horwitz spent two years reporting on why Americans are still so obsessed with the war, and the ways in which it resonates today. In the course of his work, he made a sobering side trip to cover a murder that was provoked by the display of the Confederate flag, and he spoke to a number of people seeking to honor their ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. Horwitz has a flair for odd details that spark insights, and Confederates in the Attic is a thoughtful and entertaining book that does much to explain America's continuing obsession with the Civil War. [via]
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Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimesby Jonathan VankinISBN 1881532097 (1-881532-09-7)
Softcover, Illuminet Pr
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Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notionsby John MichellISBN 1579122280 (1-57912-228-0)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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- Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions: ISBN 0932813674 (0-932813-67-4)
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Softcover, Carol Pub Group - Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions: ISBN 1579122280 (1-57912-228-0)
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- Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions: ISBN 0932813674 (0-932813-67-4)
Eccentricsby David Weeks, Jamie WeeksISBN 0517195062 (0-517-19506-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangenessby David Weeks, Jamie JamesISBN 1568361564 (1-56836-156-4)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness'Book summary:This book summarizes findings from the first systematic study of "eccentrics": highly talented and unusual people who are somewhere between "normal" and "nuts". This is a domain occupied by genuine geniuses and charming crackpots whose common feature is that they refuse to hold commonly held beliefs or refuse to act in accordance with the norms of society. Although the book would have been a more compelling read if it treated each individual in more depth, and its conclusions more convincing if there were more tables of data, it is nonetheless a delightful book that will give you either more respect for the eccentric (if you believe that you are "normal") or greater confidence in yourself (if you suspect--or know--that you are eccentric). Recommended. [via]
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Eccentrics and Villains, Hauntings and Heroes: Tales from Four Shires Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Hertfordshireby John C. HoughtonISBN 1871199379 (1-871199-37-9)
Softcover, Book Castle
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El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 847223746X (84-7223-746-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Emperor of USA and Other Magnificent Eccentricsby Catherine CaufieldISBN 0312244398 (0-312-24439-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The English Eccentricsby Edith Sitwell, Richard IngramsISBN 1873429738 (1-873429-73-8)
Softcover, Pallas Athene Pub
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First Cuckoo: Letters to the Times, 1900-1980by Kenneth Gregory, Bernard LevinISBN 0048080403 (0-04-808040-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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- The First Cuckoo: A Selection of the Most Witty, Amusing and Memorable Letters to The Times, 1900-1975: ISBN 004808025X (0-04-808025-X)
Hardcover, Times Books : Allen and Unwin - First Cuckoo: Letters to the Times, 1900-1980: ISBN 0048080314 (0-04-808031-4)
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Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Frontier Lawmenby Lee PaulISBN 0965792951 (0-9657929-5-1)
Softcover, Jona Books
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The Ghost of Scootertrash Pastby Mark Tiger EdmondsISBN 193198204X (1-931982-04-X)
Softcover, Livingston Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost of Scootertrash Past'Book summary:Continuing where he left off in Longrider, Tiger Edmonds again mixes philosophy, travel, psychology, and politically incorrect political wit (wisdom? rants?) into a humorous and hearty hunters stew. And in this recounting, Tiger introduces his grandfather"the marriage counselor," "the metaphysician," "the jockey," "the alchemist," "the teamster" (its an ill wind that blows your ass off the road,)as a counterpoint to Tigers own observations. The grandfather? Who cant help loving a man who from his deathbed tells his grandson, "Hell, boy, Im just dyin. I aint goin to quit lovin you." The writer? Who cant help but loving a writer who, despite curmudgeonly looks and attitude, gives this advice to young riders: "Dont never cross the border holding. Neither one. Either direction. Clean your mirrors often. Dont go where you aint been invited. Change your socks often. Carry extra light bulbs. Blow your nose often. Dont climb on anything you cant ride." [via]
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Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders An Urban Historicalby Franz LidzISBN 158234311X (1-58234-311-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the neighborhood had degentrified, and their house was a fortress of junk: in an attempt to preserve the past, Homer and Langley held on to everything they touched.
The scandal of Homer's discovery, the story of his life, and the search for Langley, who was missing at the time, rocked the city; the story was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters.More editions of Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders An Urban Historical:
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The Glass Castle: A Memoirby Jeannette WallsISBN 074324754X (0-7432-4754-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir'Book summary:Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.
Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor. [via]
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Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief but Essential Livesby Angus CalderISBN 1582344310 (1-58234-431-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Great Sporting Eccentrics: Weird and Wonderful Characters from the World of Sportby Geoff TibballsISBN 1861051956 (1-86105-195-6)
Softcover, Hushion House Publishing, Limited
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Holding on: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics, and Other American Heroesby Harvey Wang, David IsayISBN 0393037541 (0-393-03754-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Irish Eccentrics: A Selectionby Peter Somerville-LargeISBN 094664067X (0-946640-67-X)
Softcover, Lilliput Pr Ltd
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Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Impostors, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvelsby Ricky JayISBN 1593720009 (1-59372-000-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Joe Gould's Secretby Joseph MitchellISBN 0375708049 (0-375-70804-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joe Gould's Secret'Book summary:Joseph Ferdinand Gould--better known as Joe Gould--was a member of one of the oldest families in Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard, and his parents took it for granted that he would go on to medical school and become a surgeon and a distinguished civic leader, as many of his ancestors, including his father and grandfather, had. Instead, in 1916, in his middle twenties, he abruptly broke with his background and went to New York City and spent the next forty years living from hand to mouth in Greenwich Village as a kind of half outcast, half bohemian. He panhandled in Village hangouts, wore cast-off clothes, slept in flophouses or doorways, and often went hungry for days at a time. He said that he lived this way so that he could wander around the city at will, listening to people and writing down some of the astonishing things he heard them say. He had become obsessed with the idea that talk is history and that even offhand remarks may have eerie and prophetic historical import. He wrote in dime-store composition books, filling hundreds of them, and said that these books, when eventually joined together, would become an enormous book (a dozen times longer than the Bible, he estimated) that would be called An Oral History of Our Time. (Historians at Columbia University have given Gould credit for originating the term "oral history.")
In 1942, Joseph Mitchell, impressed by Gould's concept, wrote a profile of him for The New Yorker. Twenty-two years later, some time after Gould's death, he wrote another profile of him, and the two have been combined in Joe Gould's Secret. "When I found out Gould's secret," Mitchell said, "I was appalled, but I soon regained my respect for him, and through the years my respect has grown, though I must confess that he is still an enigma to me. Nowadays, in fact, when his name comes into my mind, it is followed instantly by another name--the name of Bartleby the Scrivener--and then I invariably recall Bartleby's haunting, horrifyingly lonely remark 'I would prefer not to.' " [via]More editions of Joe Gould's Secret:
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Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Beliefby Donna KossyISBN 0922915679 (0-922915-67-9)
Softcover, Feral House
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Learned Pigs and Fireproof Womenby Ricky JayISBN 0446385905 (0-446-38590-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Legendary Connecticut/Traditional Tales from the Nutmeg Stateby David E. PhilipsISBN 1880684055 (1-880684-05-5)
Softcover, Curbstone Pr
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Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of Their Dreamsby Mitch Tuchman, Peter BrennerISBN 0811803600 (0-8118-0360-0)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Mammoth Book of Oddballs and Eccentricsby Karl ShawISBN 0786707240 (0-7867-0724-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Masters of Atlantisby Charles PortisISBN 1585670219 (1-58567-021-9)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crimeby Francois Eugene Vidocq, Eugene Francois VidocqISBN 1902593715 (1-902593-71-5)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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My House, My Paradise: The Construction of the Ideal Domestic Universeby Gustau Gili Galfetti, Gustav GiliISBN 1584230150 (1-58423-015-0)
Hardcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My House, My Paradise: The Construction of the Ideal Domestic Universe'Book summary:Sophisticated, na"ve, refined, vulgar, mystical, hedonistic - each of these words will come to mind as you flip through the pages of this remarkable new book that gives entr}e into the private realms of some of the world's most famous people. 'Home' is that intimate, closed, secret space where we impose our own laws and give shape to our own particular concept of the world.
My House, My Paradise is a collection of houses in which the 'residents-cum-creators' have devoted all of their ingenuity, energy and determination into constructing what they perceive to be the ideal domestic universe. Each defines a personal microcosm and all are exceptional, whatever the material means used to create them. These are dwellings in which a personal way of looking at the world has bee n relentlessly pursued; most are lifelong undertakings that grew and changed with the creator, and many are distinctly eccentric. They include Ludwig II of Bavaria's Linderhof, the C}sar Manrique Villa in Lanzarote, Salvador Dali's villa in Spain, Edward James' villa in Mexico, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, Alex Jordan's house on the rock and William Randolph Hearst's Xanadu. [via]
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Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey Into The Lost History Of Autismby Paul CollinsISBN 1582344787 (1-58234-478-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Odd and Eccentric Peopleby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809477238 (0-8094-7723-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Orchid Thiefby Susan OrleanISBN 044900371X (0-449-00371-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orchid Thief'Book summary:Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid seekers than against hostile natives or wild animals) to unmapped territories in search of new varieties of Cattleya and Paphiopedilum. As knowledge of the family Orchidaceae grew to encompass the currently more than 60,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids, orchidelirium might have been expected to go the way of Dutch tulip mania. Yet, as journalist Susan Orlean found out, there still exists a vein of orchid madness strong enough to inspire larceny among collectors.
The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others:
I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.
Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. --Barrie Trinkle [via] -
The Orchid Thief : A True Story of Beauty and Obsessionby Susan OrleanISBN 0679447393 (0-679-44739-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others:
I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.
Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of The Orchid Thief : A True Story of Beauty and Obsession:
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Ordinary Jackby Helen CresswellISBN 0140311769 (0-14-031176-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Professor and the Madmanby Simon WinchesterISBN 0061030228 (0-06-103022-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0060839783 (0-06-083978-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor and the Madman: A Tale Of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American physician, locked up in an English asylum for murder. British stage actor Simon Jones leads us through this uncommon meeting of minds (the other belonging to self-educated dictionary editor James Murray) at full gallop. Ultimately, it's hard to say which is more remarkable: the facts of this amazingly well-researched story, or the sound of author Simon Winchester's erudite prose. Jones's reading smoothly transports listeners to the 19th century, reminding us why so many brilliant people obsessively set out to catalogue the English language. This unabridged version contains an interview between Winchester and John Simpson, editor of the Oxford dictionary. (Running time: 6.5 hours, 6 cassettes) --Lou Schuler [via]
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Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Planet Eccentric!by Not AvailableISBN 1893951103 (1-893951-10-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Ritualist on a Tricycle: Frederick Goldsmith, Church, Nationalism and Society in Western Australia 1880-1920by Colin HoldenISBN 187556098X (1-875560-98-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Western Australia Pr
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Roadside Americaby Jack BarthISBN 0671606883 (0-671-60688-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Rodinsky's Roomby Iain Sinclair, Rachel LichtensteinISBN 1862073295 (1-86207-329-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rodinsky's Room'Book summary:[via]David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the old Jewish East End of London, and sometime in the late 1960s he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records and clothes, was left undisturbed for 20 years. Rodinsky's world captured the imagination of a young artist, Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had escaped Poland in the 30s, and over a period of years she began to document the bizarre collection of artifacts that were found in his room, and make installations using images from his enigmatic bequest. She became obsessed with this mysterious man: Who was he? Where did he come from? Where did he go? Now Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair have written an extraordinary book that weaves together Lichenstein's quest for Rodinsky. Part mystery story, part memoir, part travelogue, Rodinsky's Room is a testament to a world that has all but vanished and the celebration of the life of a unique man. -
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Booksby Paul CollinsISBN 1582344043 (1-58234-404-3)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmenby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0688168949 (0-688-16894-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen'Book summary:What is the connection between genius and madness? IBM-based polymath Clifford Pickover approaches the question in a characteristically eclectic way. First he looks at the lives of a collection of eccentric scientists, from Nikolai Tesla to the Unabomber, giving each a name ("The Fly Man from Galway"; "The Rat Man from London") deliberately reminiscent of Sigmund Freud's names for his cases. Then Pickover discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder and the relationship between brain structure and genius. The book is organized less by an overall thesis than by what interests Pickover; thus, it includes descriptions of vaults filled with brains in formaldehyde, what it means to say that we use only 10 percent of our brains, e-mail replies to a poll on what a supergenius might be, and the latest research on the biochemistry of intelligence. Dedicated "to the cracked, for they shall let in the light," the book is engaging, haphazard, thought-provoking, and genial. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0140271287 (0-14-027128-7)
Softcover, Penguin
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Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1776-1847: A Bibliographyby John Windle, Karma PippinISBN 1884718663 (1-884718-66-3)
Hardcover, Oak Knoll Pr
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To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collectingby Philipp BlomISBN 158567561X (1-58567-561-X)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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The Towers of Trebizondby Rose Macaulay, Jan MorrisISBN 159017058X (1-59017-058-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Towers of Trebizond'Book summary:"'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass." So begins The Towers of Trebizond, the greatest novel by Rose Macaulay, one of the eccentric geniuses of English literature. In this fine and funny adventure set in the backlands of modern Turkey, a group of highly unusual travel companions makes its way from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond, encountering potion-dealing sorcerers, recalcitrant policemen, and Billy Graham on tour with a busload of Southern evangelists. But though the dominant note of the novel is humorous, its pages are shadowed by heartbreakas the narrator confronts the specters of ancient empires, religious turmoil, and painful memories of lost love. [via]
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Travels With My Auntby Graham GreeneISBN 1850890366 (1-85089-036-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With My Aunt'Book summary:[via]Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it." Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her wayto Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.
Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt gives us an intoxicating entertainment yet also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
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Up in the Old Hotelby Joseph MitchellISBN 0679746315 (0-679-74631-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Mitchell lovingly chronicled the lives of odd New York characters. In the pages of Up In the Old Hotel, the reader passes through places such as McSorley's Old Ale House or the Fulton Fish Market that many observers might have found ordinary. But when experienced through Mitchell's gifted eye, the reader will see that these haunts of old New York possess poetry, beauty, and meaning. [via]
Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Studyby Edward RegisISBN 0201122782 (0-201-12278-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Wild Wheelsby Harrod BlankISBN 1566409810 (1-56640-981-0)
Softcover, Pomegranate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Wheels'Book summary:Art Cars represent a vital and ever-growing folk art form. Forty-two of these magnificent sculptures-on-wheels are featured in 127 photographs, complete with an essay about each artist. Ever wonder what could possess a driver to transform his or her car into an alligator, cover it with faucets, meticulously apply stained glass to every inch, or completely coat it with buttons? Satisfy your curiosity, and maybe even discover an inspiration to spice up your own driving experience in this lively book by Art Car documentarian Harrod Blank.
As a teenager, Blank didnt want to be mistaken for a person as bland as his 1965 VW bug, so he started painting on it, attaching things to it, and attracting a heap of attention in a town where he became known for the car with the unforgettable name, Oh My God! Over time, people passing through town let him know that there were others like him around the country who had discovered the same irresistible canvas for self-expression. As a young filmmaker, Blank knew he had to go out there and document these kindred spirits.
Before long, he embarked upon a journey around the country to interview and photograph Art Car artists in the making of his feature documentary (also available from Amazon.com) and companion book, both entitled Wild Wheels. He found them in the most unexpected corners of the U.S., these folk artists who had no concern for traditional art venues, who wanted their art, their message, their self-expressive shrines out there on the streets.
In Wild Wheels we get a vivid glimpse of a range of these artists whose motivations, methods, and works of art are surprisingly varied, who may have only one thing in common: theyre all in this book! [via]
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Playersby Stefan FatsisISBN 0142002267 (0-14-200226-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fatsis gives us all the facts about Scrabble--from the story of the down-on-his-luck architect who invented the game in the 1930s to the intricacies of individual international competitions and the corporate wars to control the world's favorite word game. He keeps the reader turning the pages as we get involved in the lives of the Scrabble obsessives: men and women who have a point to prove against the world and have chosen Scrabble as their playground and their pulpit. As Fatsis goes on his own quest to attain the coveted 1600 rating, we actually get obsessed with him as he lies awake at night pondering moves and memorizing lists of words. For anybody who is interested in words, Word Freak provides an entertaining and absorbing read. --Dwight Longenecker, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Yo Necesito Amorby Klaus KinskiISBN 8472239160 (84-7223-916-0)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La Conjura De Los Neciosby T.j. KennedyISBN 8433920421 (84-339-2042-1)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Conjura De Los Necios'Book summary:El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes mas memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly, quien a los treinta anos vive con una estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de "teologia y geometria" como de "decencia y buen gusto". Un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada. Por una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve "catapultado en la fiebre de la existencia contemporanea", fiebre a la que Igantius anadira unos cuantos grados mas. En Francia, esta novela fue galardonada como la mejor del ano en lengua extranjera. [via]
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La Conjura De Los Necios/a Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 8496333604 (84-96333-60-4)
Softcover, Quinteto
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La Isla De Los Mapas Perdidosby Miles HarveyISBN 8483064081 (84-8306-408-1)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 8472232271 (84-7223-227-1)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Viajes con mi tia/ Travels with my Auntby Graham GreeneISBN 9875660191 (987-566-019-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Yo Necesito Amorby Klaus KinskiISBN 8472234835 (84-7223-483-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Onnozele Kinderen: Lodewijk XVII, Victor Van Aveyron, Kasper Hauserby Wim ZaalISBN 9029558326 (90-295-5832-6)
Hardcover, De Arbeiderspers
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