Bonkers Boffins, Inventors & Other Eccentric Eggheads
- ISBN-10
- 0750277181
- ISBN-13
- 9780750277181
- Category
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Wayland
- Author
- Paul Mason
Description
Discover all about the fascinating lives of some of the most kooky, eccentric, and downright barmy characters throughout the course of world history
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