The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found
By Gary Fuller
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Gary Fuller
Dr Gary Fuller is an air pollution scientist at King’s College London. He led the development of the London Air Quality Network, making information on air pollution more accessible to the public. He fre- quently appears on television, radio, writes the Pollutionwatch series for The Guardian and was one of the Evening Standard’s ‘Progress 1000’ selections, highlighting London’s most influential people. He has given evidence to parliament and is a government advisory group member.
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Reviews for The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lots of interesting geography information.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There is something about the tone of some books that just grates. This is one of those books. There are certainly a lot of interesting things here, and it is an easy read, but the randomness of it all puts me off. In addition to geography, Fuller pretty much sticks in any random thought that comes into his head--such as the cause of the Civil War (it was slavery, Dr. Fuller!)--and despite his impressive credentials as a geographer, weird non-facts creep in. The most annoying is his contention that Kalmykia, an autonomous part of the Russian federation, is a country, and therefore the only Buddhist country in Europe! What nonsense. It is no more a country than California, Quebec, or Chechnya. With stupid "facts" like this one, how can a reader really trust anything in the rest of the book? My advice: Steer clear.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Collection of diverting facts about obscure geography. Not much of a connecting theme otherwise, and the omission of some kind of wrap-up was a little jarring. Still a fun, quick read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I read this book faster and faster - skimming it towards the end. Trivia is what it is intended to be and indeed that it is what this collection is, though without any discernible form, a bit of a jumble. Ill stick to Trivial Pursuit, thank you.