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The Uncyclopedia

By Gideon Haigh
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The Uncyclopedia by Gideon Haigh is a whimsical journey through an ever-evolving collection of knowledge that defies conventional understanding. The narrative unfolds in a fantastical library where each page holds unexpected insights and peculiar entries, inviting readers to explore a world where imagination reigns supreme. This inventive book invites young adults to question what they know and embrace curiosity without limits.
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You might enjoy this book if you're a young adult with a penchant for satirical humour and a curiosity about encyclopedias turned on their heads. It's filled with clever ideas and creativity, making it perfect for readers who appreciate unique takes on information presentation.

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The Uncyclopedia

This title concerns miscellaneous facts where readers can find such things as: lists of Norse gods, phobias, poets laureate, suicide notes of the famous and all anyone needs to know about Pi. Learn how to say toast in ten languages, how to signal in morse code and how to open an oyster.

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Neither trivial nor essential, yet always illuminating, it is antipathetic to a world of relevance. Away with dull care, farewell to vocational learning, viva epistemophilia!

The Uncyclopedia is the reference book referred to purely for the purposes of delight. Highly acclaimed sports writer Gideon Haigh has turned his talents to compiling a most extraordinary book of miscellaneous fact.

Now, at last in one convenient volume, you can find lists of Norse gods, phobias, poets laureate, famous suicide notes, and all anyone needs to know about Pi. Learn how to say "toast" in ten languages, twenty Latin mottoes, how to flirt in Turkish, and how to dump someone in Japanese.

The Uncyclopedia is the only place you'll find a list of all the men to walk on the moon, the names of all animals ever sent into space, and how to signal in Morse code.

Defiantly idiosyncratic, The Uncyclopedia is a compendium of illuminating knowledge and a delight for all inquisitive readers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781877008870

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 October 2003

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 205.0mm

Weight: 254g

Pages: 154

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Gideon Haigh Penguin Books Young Adult

About the Author

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than thirty years, contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, written thirty books and edited seven others. His book On Warne won the British Sports Book Awards Best Cricket Book of the Year Award, the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award, the Jack Pollard Trophy, and the Waverley Library Nib Award; it was also shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Biography of the Year, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. The Office won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Other recent titles include Uncertain Corridors- Writings on Modern Cricket, End of the Road? on Australia's automotive industry, and The Deserted Newsroom, about media in a digital age.

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