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by Ben Schott
An essential addition to the bookshelf of all who love life's rich tapestry, Schott's Quintessential Miscellany - equal parts encyclopedia, almanac, treasury, and lexicon - will remind you that there is only one Ben Schott.
In 2003, a curious, old-fashioned, pocket-size book transformed the way we look at information. Since then, Schott's Original Miscellany and its two sequel volumes have been translated into more than fifteen languages and have sold some three million copies.
Now Ben Schott returns to the miscellany format with a brand-new cabinet of curiosities. Inside, you'll find fascinating facts cheek by jowl with information you can't live without. All things are considered, from footwear labeling symbols, airport runway markings, and sign-writing brush sizes to the traditional method of counting sheep and how to smoke cigars while reading the news.
Nothing escapes the jeweler's eye of this curator of unconsidered trifles.
"Part encyclopedia, part grab bag of facts you never knew you wanted to know... for fun lovers everywhere." - Library Journal
"Ben Schott collects necessary trivia, uncommon knowledge and vital irrelevance..." - Publishers Weekly
"This is not a book one actually reads at one sitting - it is more like a bran tub into which one dips, a bran tub that is destined for the downstairs loo. Two and a half million lavatory-users can't be wrong..." - Kensington and Chelsea Today (UK)
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Ben Schott was born in North London in 1974. He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and Gonville & Caius College, and graduated in 1996. After an astonishingly brief career at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, Ben spent most of his twenties as a freelance portrait photographer for a diverse range of editorial and commercial clients. He has worked with the Independent, The Times, the Sunday Times, Reader's Digest, and Sunday Business, among many others, and has photographed a wealth of celebrities from Hugh Grant and Tony Blair, to Gordon Brown and Enoch Powell. You can visit his website at www.benschott.com.
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