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Trevor Homer is a former champion amateur golfer, who represented England 17 times. He has been a director of several private and public companies, and now lives in Staffordshire; this is his first book, based on a lifelong obsession with obscure facts.
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Trivia fans eager for a new resource will welcome Homer's compendium of firsts and originals. The book offers plenty of useful information in short bursts, providing, for instance, a three-page thumbnail history of the theater, and a rundown of the early telegraphing highlights: "The first electromagnetic telegraph," the invention of Morse code, "the first undersea telegraph cable," etc. Trivia junky Homer admits in his epilogue that "much has been left by the wayside," but in fact more could have been pruned; the chapter on "Famous People" is simply too broad, resulting in a laundry list of names accompanied by a line or two of relevant info. With 19 categories of factual tidbits in just over 300 pages, readers might find themselves getting lost amongst all the crimes, inventions, "massive steps" and "questionable origins"; fortunately, an index provides help for the trivially turned-around.
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- PublisherPiatkus Hb/Tpb
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0749951656
- ISBN 13 9780749951658
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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