The Clumsiest People in Europe

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<p>In the middle of the 1800s, Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer set out to write an ambitious guide to all the nations on Earth. There were just three problems:</p><p>She had never set foot outside Shropshire. She was horribly misinformed about virtually every topic she turned her attention to. And she was prejudiced against foreigners.</p><p>The result was an unintentionally hilarious masterpiece: 'The French like being smart but are not very clean.' 'The Japanese are very polite people - much politer than the Chinese - but very proud.' 'The Scotch will not take much trouble to please strangers.'</p><p>In<i>The Clumsiest People in Europe</i>, Todd Pruzan has gathered together a selection of Mrs Mortimer's finest moments, celebrating the woman who turned ignorance into an art form.</p>

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Todd Pruzan is a senior editor at the business magazine<i>Condé Nast Portfolio</i>and has been an editor and writer at several other magazines. He was born in Washington, D.C., and lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

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