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920.00904 BER Personal impressions | 920.009254 RAM Biography as history : Indian perspectives | 920.02 HUG Fifty great thinkers on history | 920.02 SPA Limits of genius : the surprising stupidity of the world's greatest minds | 920.0218 SHA One hundred great lives | 920.05 BEA Oriental biographical dictionary : founded on materials collected | 920.054 COR Illustrated lives in the wilderness : three classic Indian autobiographies |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you realise they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense. Take Marie Curie, famous for both discovering radioactivity and having absolutely zero lab safety protocols. Or Lord Byron, who literally took a bear with him to university. Or James Glaisher, a hot-air balloon pioneer who nearly ended up as the world's first human satellite...From Nikola Tesla falling in love with a pigeon to non-swimmer Albert Einstein's near-fatal love of sailing holidays, The Limits of Genius is filled with examples of the so-called brightest and best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. These are the stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable and downright baffling lesser-known achievements of the men and women who somehow managed to bungle their way into our history books.
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