Edward Brooke-Hitching

Edward Brooke-Hitching is an English writer and map-collector.  

His Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports described 90 obsolete pastimes and  The Spectator'''s reviewer said "A book like this, the result of enormously diligent library ferreting, doesn't have any pressing reason to exist, but I am glad it does. Its pointlessness is its pleasure." It described sports including fox tossing, octopus wrestling and ski ballet. His The Phantom Atlas describes places which appear on maps but do not exist: the Times reviewer says that it "shows how places that aren’t there can endure, sometimes for centuries, once a map-maker has inked them in".  The Sky Atlas was shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards in the "Illustrated travel book" category and picked as one of the 50 Christmas books of the year by The Herald.

In 2007 he directed a short documentary about the Edinburgh-based Really Terrible Orchestra. 

He appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity'' in October 2019. His hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "A land grant for 60 acres of land in Poyais", being a document produced by 1820s fraudster Gregor MacGregor.

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