The Labyrinth of Curiosities: Journey Through Hundreds of Wild Facts and Fascinating Trivia--and Their Surprising Connections!

by Fay Moss-Rider

The perfect gift for your smartest friends and family (or you), The Labyrinth of Curiosities is a maze of 400 pages of trivia where each factoid and tidbit leads unexpectedly to the next.

This never-before-seen, full-color, maze-like format makes for an entirely new way of discovering cool trivia in history, science, pop culture, and more!

What do sign language puns have to do with Shakespearean cats? How do secret languages involve infamous twins? And how are gingko trees and tidal waves related? Open the labyrinth to embark on a voyage of exploration.

Start at the beginning or open anywhere in the book, pick a fact that catches your eye, and see where it leads you―you’ll never know what peculiar trivia is waiting on the next page!

400 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2023

Reviews

[Alithea King · Rating 3 out of 5]

It has an entry that mentions Ella Fitzgerald not bringing able to perform a a venue because the owners didn’t find her elegant enough. He only relented when Marilyn Monroe offered to sit in the front row every time she sang. It was racism and not lack of elegance that made the owner originally say no. It was a true fact.

[Cari · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun book with trivia that connects to other facts via shared topics. A colored line connects the items across pages, and each topic is clearly written either above or below the fact. I learned a lot of interesting things (but I did not appreciate the negative section about cats, LOL)

[Katherine Stewart-kelley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fun, but I found some pretty obvious errors which made me question every other alleged fact in this book. For example, in the entry on Cabinets of Wonders, the author states that in the Victorian age, Elias Ashmore donated his collection to Oxford, in the year 1683. 1683 was not in the Victorian age. I went directly to the Ashmolean Museum eeb site. The museum was indeed founded in 1683, making it the Georgian Era. Who checked these facts?

[H · Rating 4 out of 5]

An entertaining book of facts and tidbits that are interlinked by subject, geography, people, etc. You can read the book straight thru (as I did) or follow the colored lines to find how the author linked fact after fact in an interesting chain.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great collection of related facts!