![]() I do recommend this book to history-lovers young and old, but I warn you, it’s not for the faint-hearted. This and other gruesome information is offered in stomach-churning chunks, but is softened quite nicely by the quaintly entertaining artwork of artist Kevin O’Malley. ![]() You’ll learn how Beethoven’s doctors drilled a hole in his stomach and stuck a hose in it why Charles Dickens walked in circles and threw raging fits and why King Tut’s embalmers didn’t preserve his brain. I love this book! It’s well-organized, meticulously-detailed, and full of tidbits and asides that teach you a thing or two (or three) about the medical ignorance of yester-year, even as you double over in side-splitting laughter. ![]() ![]() It begins with details about each person’s early life and finishes by outlining each knife-riddled, maggot-infested or bacteria-festered demise. How They Croaked examines the lives (and putrid deaths) of famous figures from yester-year: Columbus, King Tut, Beethoven, Charles Darwin, and Edgar Allan Poe, just to name a few. If you’re looking for one of those stale, moth-eaten, run-of-the-mill history books to fill your idle hours, How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous, by Georgia Bragg, isn’t the book for you. ![]()
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