![]() ![]() There’s the memoir of a Massachussetts highwayman, James Allen, which he “requested be bound in his own skin after his death, and presented to his one victim who had fought back as a token of his admiration”. There’s the American civil war soldier who inscribed his journal of the conflict on to the violin he carried. So Fate of the Blenden Hall was written entirely in penguin blood.” “I mentioned it to a bookseller and they told me about a diary that they’d had, from the 19th century, written by a shipwrecked captain who only had old newspaper and penguins to hand. “If that was on a shelf, what could possibly sit next to it?” he asks. Following up anecdotes, talking to booksellers and librarians and trawling through auction catalogues, he came across stories like that of the 605-page Qur’an written in the blood of Saddam Hussein. ![]()
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