6/29/2023 0 Comments Cranioklepty by Colin Dickey![]() ![]() Teens will eat this stuff up, however, and if they happen to be fans of author Paul Collins, then they’re really going to feel lucky.” ![]() It’s a very strange story, the kind of science history that all too often gets left off the cultural map. If only we could skip the textbooks and share something that’s all kinds of real world creepy and awesome like Colin Dickey’s Cranioklepty. Human endeavor is forever inclined to oddity, and with this book, Colin Dickey provides a delightful illumination of one intriguing example of our quixotic pursuits.” Cranioklepty will join those books for popular audiences that delve into the origins of eccentric intellectual lore, whether madness and lexicography (see: The Professor and the Madman) or inventions and visions by depressives, maniacs, and malcontents. ![]() Dickey spins these stories with a storyteller’s grace and a historian’s exactitude. ![]()
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