Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions

Oddball people but largely ones who made no difference at all. Banvard's Folly is much more interesting as it often deals with unusual people but they are ones who had marked impacts on their times. They were important but have been forgotten whereas these people were never acknowledged in their own lifetimes much less after their deaths. ( )

Hollow earthers, flat earthers, bibliomaniacs, self-trepanners, and druids. Something for everyone. Adorable. ( )

"Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions" covers everything: Flat and Hollow Earths, British Israelites, Welsh Druidical Revivalists, conspiracy theorists, self-trepanners, bibliomaniacs, eugenicists, anti-Shakespearians, ufologists, and all the rest - and does so with sympathy and humanity. ( )