The passionately misguided individuals profiled in this entertaining
book form an unforgettable portrait of human imagination run wild.
Never has so much energy been poured into such oddly misbegotten
ideas, inventions, enterprises and movements. The 22 individuals and
groups described here with wit and understanding represent the widest
range of true eccentricity. Lady Blount believes that the earth is
flat; Cyrus Teed, that it is a hollow shell with us on the inside;
Baron de Guldenstubbe that statues write him letters. Nesta Webster
devotes her life to exposing international conspiracies; John Carden
to pestering one young lady. Geoffrey Pyke invents a giant battleship
made of ice; and Amanda Feilding and Joey Mellen live in peace and
prosperity after drilling holes in their heads. The peculiarities of
their beliefs are surpassed only by the boundless enthusiasm with
which they defend them, and their stories are all here, told in John
Michell's lively prose and accompanied by historic photographs and
drawings.
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