The Enthusiast Almanack: The Essential Antidote to the Banalities of Modern Living - Hardcover

Enthusiast

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905204493 ISBN 13: 9781905204496

Publisher: Quercus Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

An only slightly insane antidote to the banalities of modern life, The Enthusiast's Almanack celebrates a quality that nowadays is underrated, if not considered downright weird. All too often, 'Enthusiast' is regarded as synonymous with 'anorak', 'geek' or 'nerd'. In reality, however, it has been rigorously proven that enthusiasm is the secret to a long and satisfying life. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: 'What is a man good for without Enthusiasm?' Enthusiasm should be celebrated, not curbed! Rising to the challenge, The Enthusiast's Almanack distils the eccentric essence of The Enthusiast magazine. Within its pages adventures are experienced, advice given, recipes retailed, Gadgets analysed, unexpected secrets revealed. Where else could the reader hope to find enlightenment on matters as diverse as the precise physical dimensions of heaven, the relationship between noise and silence... and the strange art of making a mermaid? Maverick and eclectic, but also warm and wise, The Enthusiast's Almanack is the ideal gift for intellectual flâneurs, literary magpies and other cultural omnivores.

About this title

Review:

meticulously compiled and brilliantly eccentric . . . hilarious and always intriguing' The Times

Read this ... From the dimensions of heaven to tips on how to make a mermaid, fascinating ideas distilled ' The Times Magazine

From the Back Cover:

Welcome; Corrections and Clarifications; Letters; The Essential Phrase Book (1); Announcements and Advertisements; Advice; Travel - A Postcard from Japan; Wise Words; Health: Why I Quit the Gym - A True Story; Wise Words; Lives of the Famous - Thomas More; Travel - The Adventurous Way Round; Politics - Some Questions for Discussion; What I Need; Home and Garden - How to Live; Wise Words; The Mouse of Thought; Lives of the Famous - William Carlos Williams; Health - How to Breathe; Wise Words; The Essential Phrase Book (2); Food and Drink - Antifascist Risotto; Wise Words; What I Need; Travel - India; Lives of the Famous - Erik Satie; Announcements and Advertisements; Health - How's your Posture?; Wise Words; Announcements and Advertisements; Wise Words; Home and Garden - Hut; What I Need; Corrections and Clarifications; Advice; Things to Make and Do - How to Make a Mermaid; Wise Words; The Enthusiast Recommends - Music; Lives of the Famous - Lord Chesterfield; Drama - A Noh Play; Wise Words; Announcements and Advertisements; Wise Words; Food and Drink - Palestine Soup, Hodge Podge, Old English Cider Cake; The Mouse of Thought; Corrections and Clarifications; Advice; What I Need; Things to Make and Do - How to get to Whitstable; Lives of the Famous - Solomon Eccles; The Essential Phrase Book (3); The Seasons - Winter; The Natural World - The Consciousness of Dogs; Religion - The Size of Heaven; Wise Words; Travel - How to Avoid Ruin; The Mouse of Thought; Lives of the Famous - Morecambe and Wise; Town and Country - Noise; Fiction - Technical Fault, Unfinished Business; Announcements and Advertisements - Pledges; Travel - How to Cross and Bridge; Food and Drink - Polenta with Cheese, Hommony, A Nice Pudding, Dumplings, Johnny Cake, Mush; Wise Words; Corrections and Clarifications; Announcements and Advertisements; Health - Self-Doubt; Even More Advice; Travel - Nepal; Wise Words; Announcements and Advertisements; Science - Electricity; What I Believe; Shopping - Gadgets; Wise Words; What I Need; The Enthusiast Recommends; Travel - A Younger Reader Writes; Food and Drink - Romany Pie, Boeuf a la Provencale, Sweet Cake; Mangel-Wurzel Wine; Fiction; Lives of the Famous - Albrecht Durer; Wise Words; Business; Hymn; The Human Body - Itchy Internal Organs; Food and Drink - A Ham Sandwich, Game Pie (Leicestershire), Heather Wine (Dartmoor), Yule Bread (Yorkshire); Questionnaires, Quizzes and Competitions - Twenty Questions, Twenty Answers, How Equable Are You?, Brain Teaser, No, Really, How Are You?; Announcements and Advertisements; Personals; Prayer Calendar; Corrections and Clarifications; The Mouse of Thought.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1905204493
• ISBN 13: 9781905204496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224