The Little Book of Oxfordshire - by Paul Sullivan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>New in paperback, a little book full of information that you probably don't know about Oxfordshire!<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Did you know?</b></p><ul><li><b>A trip to the Ashmolean for Alice Liddell and Charles Dodgson led to the latter, under his <i>nom de plume</i> Lewis Carroll, immortalizing both Liddell and himself (as a dodo) in the Alice books.</b></li><li><b>A man was crushed beneath his own cart wheels in 1872, when his horse reared after meeting an elephant on the road from Oxford to Eynsham.</b></li><li><b>Despite Percy Bysshe Shelley being expelled from University College for writing the pamphlet 'The Necessity of Atheism', he is now its most celebrated alumnus.</b></li></ul><p><b><i>The Little Book of Oxfordshire</i> is a funny, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information no one will want to be without.</b> Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, and hundreds of interesting facts (plus some authentically bizarre bits of historical trivia).</p><p>Combining essential details with little-known and entertaining information and quotations, this book is a highly engaging guide to where you are, what to look out for now you're here, and how on earth all this came to be.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>PAUL SULLIVAN is a full-time writer who lives in Oxford. A specialist in folklore with many books to his name, he also researched, wrote and presented a weekly festivals and customs guide for BBC Radio 5 in the 1990s. Moving to Oxford, he worked part-time in The Museum of Oxford in order to absorb the history of the area, reading widely, studying the museum's collection and visiting as many of the city s celebrated sites and events as possible. When time allows, he moonlights as a semi-professional folk singer.</p>
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