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QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Lloyd
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By (author) John Mitchinson
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Illustrated by Ted Dewan
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:240 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128 |
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| Category/Genre | TV tie-in humour |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571323890
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| Classifications | Dewey:590 |
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Main
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Publishing Details |
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Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
5 March 2015 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A funny, eccentric and confounding off-road safari through a hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom. Marvel at the elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom, as everything you thought you knew is wrong: Albatrosses can fly non-stop for ten years. Box jellyfish have twenty-four eyes but no bottom. Geese mourn their dead. Koalas don't drink. Leeches have 34 brains. Lobsters live for a century. Mice sing while having sex. Monkeys pay to look at porn. And spiders can fly!
Author Biography
John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, and now runs Unbound.
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