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  • The Notes and Queries Books: People & Places - 2 Books
  • Joseph Harker and Paul Howlett
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About the Book

The Notes and Queries Book of Places is a book for anyone who has ever wondered: Whatever happened to the Bermuda Triangle? Where can I find peace of mind? How American is apple pie? This definitive collection of the very best of your queries about places provides informed and ingenious answers to those questions that provoke and puzzle, inform and entertain.

From Queen Victoria to Norbert Dentressangle, The Notes and Queries Book of People is a tantalizing selection of nuggets and quibbles on the endlessly absorbing subject of ourselves. Taken from the Guardian's much loved column, finally the answers to such questions as: Who exactly were Tom, Dick and Harry? What's so terrible about snake-oil salesmen? Why do opera singers get fat?