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Introduction
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE
There’s Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life
Leonardo da Vinci—Sigmund Freud—Isaac Newton–Oliver Heaviside—Lord Byron—Ada Lovelace—Hans Christian Andersen—Salvador Dalí
CHAPTER TWO
Happy-go-lucky
Epicurus—Benjamin Franklin—Edward Jenner—Mary Seacole—Moll Cutpurse—Richard Feynman
CHAPTER THREE
Driven
Genghis Khan—Robert E. Peary—Mary Kingsley—Alexander von Humboldt—Francis Galton—William Morris
CHAPTER FOUR
Let’s Do It
Giacomo Casanova—Catherine the Great—Cora Pearl—H. G. Wells—Colette—Marie Bonaparte—Alfred Kinsey—Tallulah Bankhead
CHAPTER FIVE
Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone
Helena, Comtesse de Noailles—George Fordyce—Elizabeth, Empress of Austria—Dr. John Harvey Kellogg—Henry Ford—George Washington Carver—Howard Hughes
CHAPTER SIX
Grin and Bear It
Pieter Stuyvesant—General Antonio López de Santa Anna—Daniel Lambert—Florence Nightingale—Fernando Pessoa—Dawn Langley Simmons
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Monkey Keepers
Oliver Cromwell—Catherine de’ Medici—Sir Jeffrey Hudson—Rembrandt van Rijn—Frida Kahlo—Madame Mao—Frank Buckland—King Alexander I of Greece
CHAPTER EIGHT
Who Do You Think You Are?
Titus Oates—Alessandro, Count Cagliostro—George Psalmanazar—Princess Caraboo—Louis de Rougemont—James Barry—Ignácz Trebitsch Lincoln—Tuesday Lobsang Rampa—Archibald Belaney
CHAPTER NINE
Once You’re Dead, You’re Made for Life
Emma Hamilton—Dr. John Dee—Jack Parsons—Nikola Tesla—Karl Marx
CHAPTER TEN
Is That All There Is?
St. Cuthbert—Ann Lee—William Blake—Jeremy Bentham—Richard Buckminster Fuller
Further Reading and Acknowledgments
1 There’s Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life
2 Happy-go-lucky
3 Driven
4 Let’s Do It
5 Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone
6 Grin and Bear It
7 The Monkey Keepers
8 Who Do You Think You Are?
9 Once You’re Dead, You’re Made for Life
10 Is That All There Is?
Also by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Also by John Lloyd (with Douglas Adams)
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