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The Mammoth Book of Losers (Mammoth Books) by Karl Shaw is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Mammoth Book of Losers (Mammoth Books) about?
This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history's most spectacularly ill-conceived expeditions and entirely useless pursuits, and features tales of black comedy, insane foolhardiness, breathtaking stupidity and relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. It rejoices in men and women made of the Wrong Stuff: writers who believed in the power of words, but could never quite find the rights ones; artists and performers who indulged their creative impulse with a passion, if not a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for perspective or the ability to hold down a tune; scientists and businessmen who never quite managed to quit while they were ahead; and sportsmen who seemed to manage always to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Like Walter Oudney, one of three men chosen to find the source of the River Niger in Africa, who could not ride a horse, nor speak any foreign languages and who had never travelled more than 30 miles beyond his native Edinburgh; or the explorer-priest Michel Alexandre de Baize, who set off to explore the African continent from east to west equipped with 24 umbrellas, some fireworks, two suits of armor, and a portable organ; or the
Who reads The Mammoth Book of Losers (Mammoth Books)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Karl Shaw
- Publisher
- Robinson Press;Little, Brown Book Group
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780338309
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (401 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14