The Crackpot Compendium: A mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers

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

Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly ‘outside-the-box’ thinkers.

Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake-predicting plants and leech barometers, cat pianos and canine translation devices, immortal adventurer...