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Tables of Contents for Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A dreadfully persistent lover
7
10
The strange adventure of a Somerset genealogist
17
4
Loyalists of the flat earth
21
20
The community that dwelt within the earth
41
10
The diehard priest who opposed capitalism
51
6
A most conservative M.P. and the royal boycott of Lincoln
57
5
The first lady of conspiratology
62
13
The man who got letters from statues
75
3
Two unusual landowners
78
6
The consolation of a jilted Latvian
84
13
The judge who visited wild men
97
10
A crusader for thoroughbred people
107
9
The inventor of frozen battleships
116
7
The last of the old Welsh Druids
123
13
Jerusalem in Scotland and other findings of a revisionist geographer
136
8
The people with holes in their heads
144
9
Bibliomaniacs
153
10
Jews, Britons and the lost tribes of Israel
163
15
Doubts on Shakespeare, and a Baconian martyr
178
23
Congressman Donnelly, the great heretic
201
11
Shakespearean decoders and the Baconian treasure hunt
212
14
Eminent ufologists
226
8
Bibliography
234
3
Sources of illustrations
237
1
Index
238