Brief Encounters.

Moore, Edwin

ISBN 10: 0550103503 / ISBN 13: 9780550103505

Published by Chambers, Edinburgh, 2007

About this Item

167pp. Rubbing, wear extremities.

Seller Inventory # 092317

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brief Encounters.
• Publisher: Chambers, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0550103503
• ISBN 13: 9780550103505
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: VG-

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of 100 meetings between famous people and the events that followed those meetings. Ranging from Cyrus the Great in the sixth century B.C. to Bill Clinton during the 2000 presidential campaign, "Brief Encounters" covers the meetings of many famous (and some not-so-famous) people throughout the ages. Each entry puts the people in context with what was happening politically, describes the meeting, and then gives a paragraph about what happened next. All entries are cross-referenced. A few sample entries: *The year 452: Pope Leo I persurades Attila the Hun not to attack Rome *1786: Walter Scott meets Robert Burns and is impressed by his Eye *1812: Beethoven meets Goethe (and snubs the Austrian empress) *1922: Proust, Joyce, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, and Picasso share a night at the Majestic

About the Author

Edwin Moore was a senior editor for a large publishing company for 17 years and was made redundant in 2005. He now lives on the other side of the publishing fence, where he writes quirky reference texts and occasional (non-quirky) obituaries for The Times. He is a film and television extra and can be seen not bumping into things in various movies (a blind man in Hallam Foe, a drunk in Wedding Belles and he plays a mad scientist in a Stagecoach advert). He is also the author of Lemmings Don't Leap published by Chambers - an amusing and informative book that explodes dozens of fondly-held beliefs, from the serious to the frivolous.