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The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants & inventors whose obsessions changed the world

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Celebrating curiosity and adventure, the book explores the obsessions, achievements and failures of lesser-known but utterly remarkable individuals who exemplify the human spirit through their stories of invention, trickery, subversion and survival.

Artist / Author David Bramwell, Jo Keeling
Publisher Chambers
ISBN 978-1473640313
Reference P3208
Date 2016
Type Publication

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