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Qi The Book of the Dead

Hardcover • 2009 • English • 1. edition

Qi The Book of the Dead

By John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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About the book

The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure. The object is to learn something abou...Show more

Biography: arts and entertainment
Biography: historical, political and military
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Book details

ISBN

9780571244904

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2009

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Qi The Book of the Dead

Format

Hardcover

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