Lots of interesting little facts, but would have liked more information about the background to some of the facts.No page numbers and slightly weird (all centred) formatting. Was expecting pictures of some sort of variety to the text. Then again, it only cost me 20p on sale on Amazon so can't rea...
As with the first book, there were a few sections with incorrect facts in them. The Lusitania part, for example. Then there were a bunch of facts that I supposedly did not know, but actually already knew. And lastly, a lot of the facts just weren't that interesting. Like the sections on postc...
I won this book through a First Reads giveaway. It's a cute book and does indeed include a lot of facts. A lot of the facts are funny and unexpected, and I enjoyed reading them. Several made me laugh out loud, such as this cute one: "It was 33 years after toilet paper was invented in Green Ba...
Lloyd, John (2008). The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything YOu think You KNow Is Wrong. Random House LLC 256 pagesCitation by: Bert BeckerType of reference: AlamanacCall Number: Ref 550.1Content/Scope: This alamanac is a book written about animals A to Z and gives very interesting information a...
The Book of Animal Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson (pp. 288)This book is not one might expect from the cover. It is written as a trivia sequel to The Book of General Ignorance from the men who present the BBC program and website: Quite Interesting. The title format is shared with it...
Designed for people who think they know a lot about animals, this title will confound, amaze and delight even the best-read animal lover. Join the QI team for an off-road safari through 120 of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom.
It is responsible for the death of one in ten adults worldwide, about five million deaths each year, while cancer is currently killing seven million people a year. If figures continue to rise at current levels, tobacco – and a range of smoking-related diseases – will become the world’s biggest ki...
The ‘tongue map’, once widely taught in schools, purported to show how each area of the tongue was solely responsible for one of ‘the four basic tastes’ – sweet, sour, bitter and salty. In fact, this is quite wrong. Wherever you have taste buds – all over the tongue and the roof of the mouth – yo...