Product Description

"Queen Elizabeth's Wooden Teeth" focuses on the erroneous facts that continue to distort the annals of world history. To counter all those fabricated facts you have learnt through the years, here is a guide to the truth behind the myths, including: Sir Walter Raleigh did not bring the potato nor tobacco back from the New World; Abraham Lincoln did not write the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope; King Ethelred the Unready was not unprepared; St George was not English; and of course Queen Elizabeth did not have wooden teeth! Written with wit and fascinating insight, and covering numerous subjects from royalty to religion, saints to statesmen, inventors to explorers, "Queen Elizabeth's Wooden Teeth" is guaranteed to astonish and inform, amuse and entertain.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56518 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Andrea Barham is also the author of the bestselling The Pedant's Revolt and The Pedant's Return.

Customer Reviews

A Fact-Lovers Book For Everyone.

If you're a fact-lover, you'll like this book.

I got it as a present and don't generally read these type of books from cover to cover but this one got me hooked. The historical fallacies that surprised me the most were that German wasn't nearly voted the official US language but for one vote and Hitler didn't get the swastika the wrong way round on the Nazi flag and Halley didn't discover Halley's comet, just documented its orbit. Some of the other fallacies I was familiar with but there are enough in the book - around eighty, I think, to make it well worth the read. It's well researched and covered a broad spectrum of topics.

One thing that did annoy me is there's no index. If you can't remember what chapter a fallacy comes under you have to flick through the whole book to find it.

Apart from that minor gripe, I thoroughly recommend it. I have ordered Andrea Brahams other books and look forward to learning even more interesting facts to amaze my friends.

Interesting but irritating ...
Modified rapture. It's a nice idea, but most of what the author writes about isn't especially amusing. Her little comments to raise a smile from her readers aren't, either. They're all a bit fourth-form, really - because, hey - our ancestors were funny.
And the lack of index is irritating.