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World of Weird: A Creepy Compendium of True Stories - Hardcover

Adams, Tom

 
9780711269521: World of Weird: A Creepy Compendium of True Stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0711269521 ISBN 13: 9780711269521
Verlag: Quarto Publishing Plc IWUK, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

In the 21st century, a scientist uncovers their Victorian ancestor’s notebook in a box. This ancestor is Dr McCreebor – an eminent explorer, philosopher and collector of the very strange and truly creepy.
 
Dr McCreebor's book is filled with the dark and disturbing stories he has collected on his travels around the world. And now, after over 125 years in a dusty attic, Dr McCreebor’s writings can be read… by only the bravest.
 
Discover the fascinating stories behind a series of objects, people and placesin every chapter. McCreebor writes from a Victorian perspective – and his descendant isn't afraid to write notes in the margins, bringing the science into the 21st century.

Uncover Artificalia (man-made objects), Naturalia (natural creatures and beings), Spiritualis (the spirit world), ScelereSupplicium (crime and punishment), Scientifica (scientific tools), Magicae (magical objects) and Morteum (skulls, bodies and more). Steampunk illustrator Celsius Pictor intricately illustrates McCreebor’s sketches, maps, records and photographs.

From shrunken heads to witches’ charms, saints’ blood to graverobbers’ remains, hangman’s salve to trepanning tools, this book is a peek into our grisly and macabre past.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Adams is an award-winning television producer and author. He was born in Yorkshire but now lives in Kent, UK. With a science background, he was inspired to turn his hand to writing children's books once his eldest son, then 5, started asking questions about how the world worked. He won the Society of Authors/ ALCS Award for Educational Writing for his book Molecule Mayhem.

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Verlag
Quarto Publishing Plc IWUK
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0711269521
ISBN 13 
9780711269521
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Zeichner
Pictor Celsius
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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