Take Me to Your Leader: Weird Facts, Bizarre Stories, and Life's Oddities - Softcover

Take Me To Your Leader is an irreverent, sideways look at the many bizarre occurrences on our sometimes twisted planet--from why humans occasionally burst into flames to how to walk on water.

A random cornucopia of the ironic and interesting, this is an illustrated reference book truly like no other--every page reveals a host of fascinating facts and curious asides that will amuse and bemuse in equal measure.

If you want to know both how the world might end tomorrow--and how to save it, whether size really does matter, how to tackle international diplomacy through hand signals, or how to make balloon animals, get a decent salami, or grapple with an angry bear, then this is the place to look.

Ian Harrison is a part-time inventor and the author of numerous books on a variety of subjects ranging from ancient battlefields to modern inventions. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including Dutch, French, Norwegian, South Korean, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Afrikaans, and Estonian. The Book of Firsts, which was published in hardback in 2003, has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into 14 languages.