Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Great for kids of about 11, 25 Oct 2008
I looked for quite a while for a quizz book that would be sutable for ages 10-11, luckily I found it with this one. A good selection of general knowledge and local infulences.

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Great for kids of about 11, 25 Oct 2008
I looked for quite a while for a quizz book that would be sutable for ages 10-11, luckily I found it with this one. A good selection of general knowledge and local infulences.

A Fact-Lovers Book For Everyone. , 21 Dec 2007

If you're a fact-lover, you'll like this book.

I got it as a present and don't generally read these type of books from cover to cover but this one got me hooked. The historical fallacies that surprised me the most were that German wasn't nearly voted the official US language but for one vote and Hitler didn't get the swastika the wrong way round on the Nazi flag and Halley didn't discover Halley's comet, just documented its orbit. Some of the other fallacies I was familiar with but there are enough in the book - around eighty, I think, to make it well worth the read. It's well researched and covered a broad spectrum of topics.

One thing that did annoy me is there's no index. If you can't remember what chapter a fallacy comes under you have to flick through the whole book to find it.

Apart from that minor gripe, I thoroughly recommend it. I have ordered Andrea Brahams other books and look forward to learning even more interesting facts to amaze my friends.

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Great for kids of about 11, 25 Oct 2008
I looked for quite a while for a quizz book that would be sutable for ages 10-11, luckily I found it with this one. A good selection of general knowledge and local infulences.

A Fact-Lovers Book For Everyone. , 21 Dec 2007

If you're a fact-lover, you'll like this book.

I got it as a present and don't generally read these type of books from cover to cover but this one got me hooked. The historical fallacies that surprised me the most were that German wasn't nearly voted the official US language but for one vote and Hitler didn't get the swastika the wrong way round on the Nazi flag and Halley didn't discover Halley's comet, just documented its orbit. Some of the other fallacies I was familiar with but there are enough in the book - around eighty, I think, to make it well worth the read. It's well researched and covered a broad spectrum of topics.

One thing that did annoy me is there's no index. If you can't remember what chapter a fallacy comes under you have to flick through the whole book to find it.

Apart from that minor gripe, I thoroughly recommend it. I have ordered Andrea Brahams other books and look forward to learning even more interesting facts to amaze my friends.



The stories behind The Story, 02 Jan 1998
Did you know that the owner of the farm where the first Civil War fighting took place hosted the peace treaty signing in his front parlor in Appomattox? Col Wilmer McClean, seeking to escape the fighting after the First Battle at Bull Run, moved to Southern Virginia and settled in Appomattox. Little did he know the fighting would eventually follow him--and end with the meeting of Grant and Lee in his front parlor. Minutiae and the smaller aspects of the Great War Between the States is all documented in this rather small volume. This is not a stale treatment of those lesser-known facts of the Civil War, but a lively telling of those incidents and thoughts on the Great American Schism. It is hard to put the book down once you start reading it. A must read.

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Great for kids of about 11, 25 Oct 2008
I looked for quite a while for a quizz book that would be sutable for ages 10-11, luckily I found it with this one. A good selection of general knowledge and local infulences.

A Fact-Lovers Book For Everyone. , 21 Dec 2007

If you're a fact-lover, you'll like this book.

I got it as a present and don't generally read these type of books from cover to cover but this one got me hooked. The historical fallacies that surprised me the most were that German wasn't nearly voted the official US language but for one vote and Hitler didn't get the swastika the wrong way round on the Nazi flag and Halley didn't discover Halley's comet, just documented its orbit. Some of the other fallacies I was familiar with but there are enough in the book - around eighty, I think, to make it well worth the read. It's well researched and covered a broad spectrum of topics.

One thing that did annoy me is there's no index. If you can't remember what chapter a fallacy comes under you have to flick through the whole book to find it.

Apart from that minor gripe, I thoroughly recommend it. I have ordered Andrea Brahams other books and look forward to learning even more interesting facts to amaze my friends.



The stories behind The Story, 02 Jan 1998
Did you know that the owner of the farm where the first Civil War fighting took place hosted the peace treaty signing in his front parlor in Appomattox? Col Wilmer McClean, seeking to escape the fighting after the First Battle at Bull Run, moved to Southern Virginia and settled in Appomattox. Little did he know the fighting would eventually follow him--and end with the meeting of Grant and Lee in his front parlor. Minutiae and the smaller aspects of the Great War Between the States is all documented in this rather small volume. This is not a stale treatment of those lesser-known facts of the Civil War, but a lively telling of those incidents and thoughts on the Great American Schism. It is hard to put the book down once you start reading it. A must read.

Enjoyable enough read but peppered with inaccuracies, 25 Jan 2007
It's a perfectly fun book to dip into and easy enough to read, but there are too many factual errors, evidence of lack of proof-reading and generally simply not answering the questions, for a pedantic scientist to be able to entirely enjoy it.

Examples:
- claiming nettles sting with formic acid
- confusing galaxies with the universe
- claiming the distant planet Sedna is a mere 10 million miles from the Sun
- determining fingernail growth of 0.5mm/week to be 2.16mm/month, ignoring significant figures

Ultimately it mainly does what it says on the tin in terms of its recycling of the source material, but that source material really should have been checked better.

Whether your tastes run to foie gras or french fries, this tasty compilation of the wise, the weird, and the faintly absurd will soon have you asking for more. An essential ingredient in any kitchen, "The Cook's Companion is stuffed with food facts, ficti

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Great for kids of about 11, 25 Oct 2008
I looked for quite a while for a quizz book that would be sutable for ages 10-11, luckily I found it with this one. A good selection of general knowledge and local infulences.

A Fact-Lovers Book For Everyone. , 21 Dec 2007

If you're a fact-lover, you'll like this book.

I got it as a present and don't generally read these type of books from cover to cover but this one got me hooked. The historical fallacies that surprised me the most were that German wasn't nearly voted the official US language but for one vote and Hitler didn't get the swastika the wrong way round on the Nazi flag and Halley didn't discover Halley's comet, just documented its orbit. Some of the other fallacies I was familiar with but there are enough in the book - around eighty, I think, to make it well worth the read. It's well researched and covered a broad spectrum of topics.

One thing that did annoy me is there's no index. If you can't remember what chapter a fallacy comes under you have to flick through the whole book to find it.

Apart from that minor gripe, I thoroughly recommend it. I have ordered Andrea Brahams other books and look forward to learning even more interesting facts to amaze my friends.



The stories behind The Story, 02 Jan 1998
Did you know that the owner of the farm where the first Civil War fighting took place hosted the peace treaty signing in his front parlor in Appomattox? Col Wilmer McClean, seeking to escape the fighting after the First Battle at Bull Run, moved to Southern Virginia and settled in Appomattox. Little did he know the fighting would eventually follow him--and end with the meeting of Grant and Lee in his front parlor. Minutiae and the smaller aspects of the Great War Between the States is all documented in this rather small volume. This is not a stale treatment of those lesser-known facts of the Civil War, but a lively telling of those incidents and thoughts on the Great American Schism. It is hard to put the book down once you start reading it. A must read.

Enjoyable enough read but peppered with inaccuracies, 25 Jan 2007
It's a perfectly fun book to dip into and easy enough to read, but there are too many factual errors, evidence of lack of proof-reading and generally simply not answering the questions, for a pedantic scientist to be able to entirely enjoy it.

Examples:
- claiming nettles sting with formic acid
- confusing galaxies with the universe
- claiming the distant planet Sedna is a mere 10 million miles from the Sun
- determining fingernail growth of 0.5mm/week to be 2.16mm/month, ignoring significant figures

Ultimately it mainly does what it says on the tin in terms of its recycling of the source material, but that source material really should have been checked better.


Thought for food, 28 May 2007
This is a delightful pot porri of all things edible. It is the sort of book you can keep dipping into learing new facts on food and its history. There are quotes, cartoons and recipes. If you are compiling quizzes you will find lots here to test the best of minds and memories. Be warned. It will provoke the appetite.

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Great for kids of about 11, 25 Oct 2008
I looked for quite a while for a quizz book that would be sutable for ages 10-11, luckily I found it with this one. A good selection of general knowledge and local infulences.

A Fact-Lovers Book For Everyone. , 21 Dec 2007

If you're a fact-lover, you'll like this book.

I got it as a present and don't generally read these type of books from cover to cover but this one got me hooked. The historical fallacies that surprised me the most were that German wasn't nearly voted the official US language but for one vote and Hitler didn't get the swastika the wrong way round on the Nazi flag and Halley didn't discover Halley's comet, just documented its orbit. Some of the other fallacies I was familiar with but there are enough in the book - around eighty, I think, to make it well worth the read. It's well researched and covered a broad spectrum of topics.

One thing that did annoy me is there's no index. If you can't remember what chapter a fallacy comes under you have to flick through the whole book to find it.

Apart from that minor gripe, I thoroughly recommend it. I have ordered Andrea Brahams other books and look forward to learning even more interesting facts to amaze my friends.



The stories behind The Story, 02 Jan 1998
Did you know that the owner of the farm where the first Civil War fighting took place hosted the peace treaty signing in his front parlor in Appomattox? Col Wilmer McClean, seeking to escape the fighting after the First Battle at Bull Run, moved to Southern Virginia and settled in Appomattox. Little did he know the fighting would eventually follow him--and end with the meeting of Grant and Lee in his front parlor. Minutiae and the smaller aspects of the Great War Between the States is all documented in this rather small volume. This is not a stale treatment of those lesser-known facts of the Civil War, but a lively telling of those incidents and thoughts on the Great American Schism. It is hard to put the book down once you start reading it. A must read.

Enjoyable enough read but peppered with inaccuracies, 25 Jan 2007
It's a perfectly fun book to dip into and easy enough to read, but there are too many factual errors, evidence of lack of proof-reading and generally simply not answering the questions, for a pedantic scientist to be able to entirely enjoy it.

Examples:
- claiming nettles sting with formic acid
- confusing galaxies with the universe
- claiming the distant planet Sedna is a mere 10 million miles from the Sun
- determining fingernail growth of 0.5mm/week to be 2.16mm/month, ignoring significant figures

Ultimately it mainly does what it says on the tin in terms of its recycling of the source material, but that source material really should have been checked better.


Thought for food, 28 May 2007
This is a delightful pot porri of all things edible. It is the sort of book you can keep dipping into learing new facts on food and its history. There are quotes, cartoons and recipes. If you are compiling quizzes you will find lots here to test the best of minds and memories. Be warned. It will provoke the appetite.

'The Christmas Book' is packed full of fascinating facts about the magic of Christmas, 21 Nov 2007
`Do you know.....

The date of Jesus' birth and in which year he was born?
Where the inspiration for Christmas crackers came from?
Why Santa dresses in red?
Why we celebrate Christmas on 25th December?'

`These days, in the long, cold December weeks leading up to Christmas, we seem to forget the traditional nativity story we all know and love and spend more time frantically panicking about how to secure the latest and hippest toys.
We lose sight of the glorious Christmas rituals that have existed for generations and worry about the price of Brussels sprouts and how we're going to squeeze the turkey into the oven.

`The Christmas Book' is packed full of fascinating facts about the magic of Christmas, ....from ...... determining how much of our Christmas Story could have really taken place, from explaining what a real Yule Log is, to tracking the evolution of the Christmas card, there's something in here to interest and entertain everyone, young and old alike....guaranteed to enrich the festive experience of all who read it, whether a Christmas lover or cynical Scrooge.'
And from the first pages, where the word `Christmas' (Christ's Mass) is mentioned .....to the note that William the Conqueror was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066.... to the often incorrectly quoted title of Professor Moore's famous poem:- `A Visit from St Nicholas' ...to `The Shape of Christmases to Come', I have to agree -
there is bound to be something new, albeit possible supposition, to the reader:-

`I am tempted to predict that, with the impact of climate change, Britain will continue to experience warmer winters, with less ice and snow to provide a white Christmas.
Alternatively, if the change results in the shutting off of the Gulf Stream, future Christmas weather may indeed be deep and crisp and even colder.'

272 matt pages, written in a variety of fonts and split over the following chapter titles:-

The Ones I Used to Know
1500 British Christmases
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Christmas Customs
The Goose is Getting Fat
Other Christmas Quirks and Queries

plus an index.

Interspersed with poems, black and white illustrations and an 8 page section of colour plates.
In places, there are notes of particular interest in bold, capital letters to draw the eye, e.g.:-

`DELIA SMITH USED CRANBERRIES IN NO FEWER HAN NINE RECIPES IN HER BEST-SELLING COOKERY BOOK, `WINTER COLLECTION'.
THE BOOK LED TO A 200% INCREASE IN SALES OF CRANBERRIES DURING THE WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.'
or

`IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 17TH CENTURY, CROMWELL ROOTED OUT WHAT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE PAGAN OR PAPAL IDOLATRY.
THE CUSTOM OF SENDING A SPRAY OF GLASTONBURY THORN TO THE MONARCHY ABRUPTLY STOPPED.'

Alongside such entries is more information on the subject, so it is easy to skim read to areas of particular interest, if required.

Not so usless!, 29 Mar 2008
My daughter book me this book for my birthday. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. I found all the information not "useless" but absolutely fascinating. However, a warning - once you have read this book you will start ever conversation with anyone with the words "Did you know.....?". I recently got on every passengers nerves on a recent flight because I was reading it out loud. However, I am sure there are some people from that flight now starting a conversation with "Did you know....?". Brilliant book.

Complete faeces, 16 May 2008
If the photo on the cover isn't enough to stop you buying this then you must be as sad as he is. What a load of tosh, the only time it might be of use is if you run out of Andrex you can rip the pages out for wiping your arris with. Do you really want to put even more money in the pockets of that sycophantic piece of dog excrement?????

Great for kids of about 11, 25 Oct 2008
I looked for quite a while for a quizz book that would be sutable for ages 10-11, luckily I found it with this one. A good selection of general knowledge and local infulences.

A Fact-Lovers Book For Everyone. , 21 Dec 2007

If you're a fact-lover, you'll like this book.

I got it as a present and don't generally read these type of books from cover to cover but this one got me hooked. The historical fallacies that surprised me the most were that German wasn't nearly voted the official US language but for one vote and Hitler didn't get the swastika the wrong way round on the Nazi flag and Halley didn't discover Halley's comet, just documented its orbit. Some of the other fallacies I was familiar with but there are enough in the book - around eighty, I think, to make it well worth the read. It's well researched and covered a broad spectrum of topics.

One thing that did annoy me is there's no index. If you can't remember what chapter a fallacy comes under you have to flick through the whole book to find it.

Apart from that minor gripe, I thoroughly recommend it. I have ordered Andrea Brahams other books and look forward to learning even more interesting facts to amaze my friends.



The stories behind The Story, 02 Jan 1998
Did you know that the owner of the farm where the first Civil War fighting took place hosted the peace treaty signing in his front parlor in Appomattox? Col Wilmer McClean, seeking to escape the fighting after the First Battle at Bull Run, moved to Southern Virginia and settled in Appomattox. Little did he know the fighting would eventually follow him--and end with the meeting of Grant and Lee in his front parlor. Minutiae and the smaller aspects of the Great War Between the States is all documented in this rather small volume. This is not a stale treatment of those lesser-known facts of the Civil War, but a lively telling of those incidents and thoughts on the Great American Schism. It is hard to put the book down once you start reading it. A must read.

Enjoyable enough read but peppered with inaccuracies, 25 Jan 2007
It's a perfectly fun book to dip into and easy enough to read, but there are too many factual errors, evidence of lack of proof-reading and generally simply not answering the questions, for a pedantic scientist to be able to entirely enjoy it.

Examples:
- claiming nettles sting with formic acid
- confusing galaxies with the universe
- claiming the distant planet Sedna is a mere 10 million miles from the Sun
- determining fingernail growth of 0.5mm/week to be 2.16mm/month, ignoring significant figures

Ultimately it mainly does what it says on the tin in terms of its recycling of the source material, but that source material really should have been checked better.


Thought for food, 28 May 2007
This is a delightful pot porri of all things edible. It is the sort of book you can keep dipping into learing new facts on food and its history. There are quotes, cartoons and recipes. If you are compiling quizzes you will find lots here to test the best of minds and memories. Be warned. It will provoke the appetite.

'The Christmas Book' is packed full of fascinating facts about the magic of Christmas, 21 Nov 2007
`Do you know.....

The date of Jesus' birth and in which year he was born?
Where the inspiration for Christmas crackers came from?
Why Santa dresses in red?
Why we celebrate Christmas on 25th December?'

`These days, in the long, cold December weeks leading up to Christmas, we seem to forget the traditional nativity story we all know and love and spend more time frantically panicking about how to secure the latest and hippest toys.
We lose sight of the glorious Christmas rituals that have existed for generations and worry about the price of Brussels sprouts and how we're going to squeeze the turkey into the oven.

`The Christmas Book' is packed full of fascinating facts about the magic of Christmas, ....from ...... determining how much of our Christmas Story could have really taken place, from explaining what a real Yule Log is, to tracking the evolution of the Christmas card, there's something in here to interest and entertain everyone, young and old alike....guaranteed to enrich the festive experience of all who read it, whether a Christmas lover or cynical Scrooge.'
And from the first pages, where the word `Christmas' (Christ's Mass) is mentioned .....to the note that William the Conqueror was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066.... to the often incorrectly quoted title of Professor Moore's famous poem:- `A Visit from St Nicholas' ...to `The Shape of Christmases to Come', I have to agree -
there is bound to be something new, albeit possible supposition, to the reader:-

`I am tempted to predict that, with the impact of climate change, Britain will continue to experience warmer winters, with less ice and snow to provide a white Christmas.
Alternatively, if the change results in the shutting off of the Gulf Stream, future Christmas weather may indeed be deep and crisp and even colder.'

272 matt pages, written in a variety of fonts and split over the following chapter titles:-

The Ones I Used to Know
1500 British Christmases
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Christmas Customs
The Goose is Getting Fat
Other Christmas Quirks and Queries

plus an index.

Interspersed with poems, black and white illustrations and an 8 page section of colour plates.
In places, there are notes of particular interest in bold, capital letters to draw the eye, e.g.:-

`DELIA SMITH USED CRANBERRIES IN NO FEWER HAN NINE RECIPES IN HER BEST-SELLING COOKERY BOOK, `WINTER COLLECTION'.
THE BOOK LED TO A 200% INCREASE IN SALES OF CRANBERRIES DURING THE WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.'
or

`IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 17TH CENTURY, CROMWELL ROOTED OUT WHAT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE PAGAN OR PAPAL IDOLATRY.
THE CUSTOM OF SENDING A SPRAY OF GLASTONBURY THORN TO THE MONARCHY ABRUPTLY STOPPED.'

Alongside such entries is more information on the subject, so it is easy to skim read to areas of particular interest, if required.

WALT DISNEY WORLD TRIVIA BOOK AND ITS MAGIC, 02 Jul 2007
This is an absolutely brilliant book! My partner and I have been going to walt Disney world since september 2000,This book has made us look at wdw in a new light! This great book has highlighted so many things we haven't seen or done yet,so many fun facts in this book about the magic that is walt disney world!
This book is a must for all disney fans and i cannot recommed this book enough.
lou you are the man.

FANTASMIC!!!!, 16 Aug 2006
This is an absolutely brilliant book! My family and I have been to Disneyworld 3 times and thought we had seen it all!! We are going back in a couple of months and this book has opened up a new world for us! This great book has highlighted so many things we haven't seen! My book has so many highlights in it now for us to go on a treasure hunt to find all the previously missed/overlooked but very special parts of Disney! The history of the parks and how they came about and why they did things is so fascinating! THIS BOOK IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR DISNEY FANS - AN IDEAL TRAVEL COMPANION FOR ALL DISNEY VISITORS! I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK ENOUGH!