The Book of Lists, The Canadian Edition

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The Book of Lists, the Canadian Edition


	Format	Softcover
	Catalogue No.	0-676-97720-0
	Pages	518
	Language	English only
	Price	$25.00

Written by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2005.

Description:

A new edition of the classic bestseller from the original authors, with additional material specifically prepared for Canadian readers.

For nearly three decades, the editors of The Book of Lists have been researching curious facts, unusual statistics and the incredible stories behind them. Now the most entertaining and informative of these have been brought together in a long-awaited, thoroughly up-to-date new edition that is also the first Canadian edition. Ira Basen and Jane Farrow have augmented the existing lists with fascinating homegrown material, and compiled lists specifically of relevance to Canadian readers.

So if you’ve always wanted to find out how porcupines really mate, how comedy can kill and — that most essential piece of knowledge — how long the longest recorded nose was, this is the book for you. With contributions from a variety of celebrities and experts including Margaret Atwood, Mike Myers, Michael Ondaatje, Dave Eggers, Phillip Pullman and Charlotte Gray, this anthology has something for everyone — and more than you ever suspected you wanted to know.

A selected list of lists from The Book of Lists:

10 Notable Film Scenes Left on the Cutting Room Floor
10 Afflictions and Their Patron Saints
14 Nations with More Sheep Than People
Margaret MacMillan’s 12 Favourite 20th-Century Diplomatic Incidents
5 Trips to the Canadian Wilderness That Ended in Disaster
8 Really Bad Canadian Sports Teams
Kurt Browning’s 9 Turning Points in Figure Skating History
12 Museums of Limited Appeal
10 Celebrated People Who Read Their Own Obituaries
Margaret Atwood’s 10 Annoying Things to Say to Writers
5 body parts named after Italians
Mike Myers’s 10 Best Things to do in Toronto
13 Untranslatable words

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