Bizarrism Vol 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bizarrism Vol 1 write by Chris Mikul. This book was released on 2016-09-22. Bizarrism Vol 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including: William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we’ve all been making a terrible mistake; Arthur Cravan, who combined poetry with boxing; Slim Gaillard, jazz singer and dispenser of ‘vout’; William Lindsay Gresham, author of the classic noir novel Nightmare Alley; Rosaleen Norton, Australia’s most notorious witch; Harry Crosby, poet, sun worshipper and the best looking corpse of 1929; Reginal Levgiac, author of the mysterious pamphlet Drugs Virus Germs. In writing their stories, Mikul does not judge, but instead celebrates these characters for their fabulous weirdness. For him, they are the “beacons of shining if erratic brilliance in a world of sensible conformity”. The world would be a poorer place without them.
Bizarrism II
Bizarrism II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bizarrism II write by Chris Mikul. This book was released on 2018-07-09. Bizarrism II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bizarrism II collects further tales of high weirdness from around the world, including: • The curious death of Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green. • Baroness Eloise de Bosquet and the mystery of Floreana • The strange odyssey of William Seabrook – writer, adventurer, cannibal. • JLB Smith’s obsessive search for the coelacanth. • The cult that promised eternal life. • The unexpectedly appalling story of Madalyn Murray O’Hair and the American Atheists. • Leonard Lawson – comic book artist and killer. • Padre Pio, Italy’s celebrity stigmatic. • The strange fate of Napoleon’s penis and other illustrious male members. • Ferdinand Sauerbruch – the senile surgeon. • Murder and mayhem among the Hare Krishnas. • The enduring enigma of ‘Somerton Man’. Mikul brings these stories to life in meticulously researched accounts that will amuse, appal and intrigue, and leave you marvelling at the infinite strangeness of human beings.
Bizarrism
Bizarrism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bizarrism write by Chris Mikul. This book was released on 1999. Bizarrism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A funny and entertaining look at outlandish ideas, wacky religious cults and the extremes of human beliefs, both in Australia and overseas. It is a celebration of strange and eccentric lives, with an emphasis on unsung Australian eccentrics, bringing together the best ten years of "Bizarrism" magazine.
Bizarrism No. One
Bizarrism No. One - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bizarrism No. One write by Chris Mikul. This book was released on 1986. Bizarrism No. One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Favourite Dictators
My Favourite Dictators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Favourite Dictators write by Chris Mikul. This book was released on 2020-07-21. My Favourite Dictators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “I’m personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, but it’s what the people want.” — Saparmurat Niyazov, dictator of Turkmenistan Dictators may be among the worst people in history, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t laugh at them. In My Favourite Dictators, Chris Mikul tells the stories of eleven of the twentieth century’s most colourful and reviled human beings, including Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il. In each case, he examines the political backgrounds to their rise to power and eventual downfall, but the focus here is on the personalities, peculiarities and private lives of these very strange men. You’ll be amazed and appalled by their effortless cruelties, voracious sexual appetites, absurd personality cults, ostentatious uniforms, promotion of dreadful art and pretensions to being great writers – not to mention their terrible taste in interior decoration.
