Advice for 'chick rockers' by Chrissie Hynde, And many, many more. Michelangelo's illustrated shopping list, 10. Johnny Cash's list of 'things to do today', 9. Martin Luther King's advice for black people starting to use buses, 8. 29-year-old Marilyn Monroe's inspirational set of New Year's resolutions, 7.
Einstein's punitive list of conditions imposed on his first wife, 6. Galileo's list of the parts needed to build his telescope, 5. Shaun Usher is the writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs, and. The 19 year-old Isaac Newton's list of the 57 sins he'd already committed, 4. Shaun Ushers obsession with old-fashioned correspondence began when he fell in love with his future wife, Karina, by letter in 2002. A handwritten list of the BFG's favourite words by Roald Dahl, 3. A shopping list written by two ninth-century Tibetan monks, 2. In its pages you'll find 125 lists with facsimiles or illustrations, including: 1. Just as he did with Letters of Note, Shaun Usher has trawled the world's archives to produce a rich visual anthology that stretches from ancient times to present day.įrom Leonardo da Vinci's to-do list to Charles Darwin on the pros and cons of marriage or Julia Child's list of possible titles for what would later become an American cooking bible, Lists of Note is a constantly surprising A-Z of what makes us human. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations likes and dislikes rules for living and loving records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Eisenhower * Meghan Markle * Sojourner Truth * Salman Rushdie * Panti Bliss * Nelson Mandela * Robert F.Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. Malala Yousafzai * Tilda Swinton * Albert Einstein * Nick Cave * Queen Elizabeth II * Kermit the Frog * Pablo Picasso * Harvey Milk * J. SPEECHES OF NOTE: seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes. Surprising, inspiring and shocking moving, comforting and enlightening.
While some speeches are heard by millions, some remain unspoken: the secret draft prepared for QUEEN ELIZABETH II during a military exercise for World War III, and PRESIDENT NIXON’s chilling public announcement should NEIL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ ALDRIN become stranded on the Moon. Expect the gloriously unexpected, as KERMIT THE FROG takes to the podium, and celebrate lives well-lived, including TILDA SWINTON’s tribute to ‘every alien’s favourite cousin’, DAVID BOWIE. A richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPEECHES - THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE UNSPOKEN - f rom the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note.ĭiscover speeches that altered the course of history, like NELSON MANDELA’s on the day he became South Africa’s first black President, and outpourings of much-needed change, such as the impassioned, impromptu appeal for women’s rights from SOJOURNER TRUTH, an African-American woman born into slavery.
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