Moles and their Meaning was originally published in 1907. It claims to allow you to tell the character type and future of a person based on their facial moles. If you believe that is possible, then even without consulting your moles I can tell that you are the sort of gullible person who should buy this book. If you don't believe it then because you are sagacious and graced with a fine sense of humour you should buy it anyway.

This 1889 book describes an unusual overland journey from Beijing to Calais, undertaken in 1887 by Harry de Windt (1856 1933), an explorer and travel writer, who later went from Paris to New York, also (mostly) by land. From a military family, he was the brother-in-law and aide-de-camp of Charles Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak, but his official duties left him with plenty of time for eye-catching journeys like this one. His only guidebook was John Bell's 1763 account of travelling from St Petersburg to Beijing across Siberia, but with advice on the route from a Russian embassy official, de...