Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390670 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 196 pages

Synopsis
A full colour illustrated book packed with over 450 amazing instructions, items of information, advice, tips and directions, which explains how to do all sorts of improbable and practical things...Learn how to make a flower change colour, avoid the evil eye, and make buttons stay on longer! Discover the secrets of easing backaches, causing rain, extracting a broken cork and making bird's nest soup! Learn how to play the nose flute, the spoon and the comb!

Customer Reviews

My favourite book as a child
When I was eight, my dad bought me a copy of the old edition of this book and it utterly captivated me. I would spend days poring over it, trying out the tips and projects in it, whether making dandelion wine or climbing through playing cards. I made my parents promise that if I died, they would make sure that I would be mummified according to the instructions in the book. There was probably no other single item that gave me as much entertainment. Even now, over twenty years later, I enjoy the bizarre and meticulously illustrated trivia in it, and look forward to one day passing it on to my own children. I don't think I'll ever manage to become Pope though.