Edward Brooke-Hitching

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Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Madman's Library (2020) and The Devil's Atlas (2021), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire.

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Books by Edward Brooke-Hitching

The Crackpot Compendium

A mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history’s most eccentric thinkers.

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