Hello Books
I have just seen Umberto Eco - a library of the world, and he was an avid collector of books that are just plain wrong. It could be occult, historians that got it wrong, mistakeful theories, etc. I loved all of the books that was shown in the movie, but I have had a hard time finding any of them or similiar types. Do you have any advice, and or any favourites in this genre?
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was written in the 14th century and is a supposedly true account of his travels in Asia. It includes such claims as him seeing a tree that has lambs growing on its branches (which bend down to allow the lambs to eat the surrounding grass), and a race of people who have a single leg with a giant foot on it that they use as an umbrella.
I also have a medical dictionary which says lesbians have a tendency to smoke pipes, which is not something I’ve particularly noticed.
He actually had it backwards. I’m straight, but I tried smoking a pipe once, and it turned me lesbian for three hours! Wild times.
I wonder if that was inspo for Lois McMaster Bujold’s Cetagandan Kitten Tree in her Vorkosigan novels. (Don’t pick them before they’re ripe!)