Edward Brooke-Hitching

Gebundenes Buch

The Madman's Orchestra

Beschreibung

From the bestselling author and former BBC QI Elf comes a fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of music. In The Madmanâ s Orchestra, join Edward Brooke-Hitching as he lifts the curtain on the strangest episodes from the entire history of music, taking us on a backstage tour of surprising and eccentric stories.

Autor

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Madman's Library (2020) and The Devil's Atlas (2021), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 197mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 990g
• ISBN-13: 9781398532403
• ISBN-10: 1398532401
• Artikelnr.: 73232633