The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

The Book of General Ignorance

A Quite Interesting Book

by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

Faber and Faber, 2006
First edition
Lightly illustrated with small b/w line drawings in text
ISBN 9780571233687
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Near Fine
minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, chip to title page.  Dustjacket very good with minor edge wear (see photographs)

“A comprehensive and humiliating catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in ‘common knowledge’, which will make you wonder why anyone ever bothers to go to school.
If you still think that Henry VII had six wives, that the earth has only one moon, and that Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain, then you need this book.  Urgently.”