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Banvard's Folly

Banvard's Folly Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck

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Publisher's Synopsis

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, who plummeted into oblivion? This book tells of 13 'losers', who achieved great heights only to meet crushing defeats.

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Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330486880
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Main Market Ed.
DEWEY: 609.22
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 286
Weight: 473g
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine width: 29mm

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