The Battle of Hastings, where Harold's penchant for wearing on his head an upturned bucket rather than the standard issue helmet was to prove his undoing; the invention of the wheel, which occurred when a gentleman in Mesopotamia stumbled upon a bucket and watched transfixed as it rolled across the floor; the foundation of Rome: Romulus, Remus and a bucket - the rest is history. Unchanged in design over millennia, the humble bucket possesses a versatility unmatched in the history of human invention. It is the unobtrusive ...
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The Battle of Hastings, where Harold's penchant for wearing on his head an upturned bucket rather than the standard issue helmet was to prove his undoing; the invention of the wheel, which occurred when a gentleman in Mesopotamia stumbled upon a bucket and watched transfixed as it rolled across the floor; the foundation of Rome: Romulus, Remus and a bucket - the rest is history. Unchanged in design over millennia, the humble bucket possesses a versatility unmatched in the history of human invention. It is the unobtrusive onlooker, the fly on the wall sat in quiet contemplation at all great turning points in world history. Detailing 50 buckets that were present at great moments in history, Guardian travel writer and author of Tiny Castles and Tiny Histories, Dixe Wills, describes each event through their sage and unblinking gaze. It's time to start ticking some buckets off your list.
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ââ?¬Ë?Fifty buckets you should see before you dieââ?¬â?¢ is an intriguing tagline and a funny take on the usual idea of a ââ?¬Ë?bucket listââ?¬â?¢. I must admit I was really excited to start reading this short book that promised historical events from the perspective of famous buckets. Unfortunately the only thing I found funny about this book was its title!
I was expecting a sort of Horrible Histories style humour with this book â�" true stories intermingled with some funny narration and some new stories learnt about our history. What I got was an odd mix of made up dialogue and factually incorrect stories with the theme of buckets shoved in. Some stories were true and interesting, such as The Bromeswell Bucket or The Bucket of Blood, a pub which derived itâ��s name from dredging up a bucket of blood from a dead smuggler who had been hidden in their well.
Some stories were completely inaccurate such as the Moon Rock Sample Bucket, Cleopatraâ��s Bucket or Emily Bronteâ��s Wuthering Bucket. These stories seemed to just be there to hold a funny fictional story or amusing conversation from history using a bucket as the theme. However, I didnâ��t so much as crack a smile at these and unlike another reviewer who blamed not getting the British sense of humour â�" Iâ��m from the UK!
Then we had some stories which had absolutely nothing to do with buckets, such as Charlie Bucket, in which the author went on an odd rant about the Soviet conspiracy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There was a story about Florence Nightingale, only held together by the theme by the fact that she was ââ?¬Ë?The Lady of the Lampââ?¬â?¢ and her friend ââ?¬Ë?The Lady of the Bucketââ?¬â?¢ was lost to history. There was also a story about Taylor Swifts lost album called Bucket (completely untrue). These stories really ruined the book for me ââ?¬" if youââ?¬â?¢re going to make some entries interesting and factual then this has to apply to all of the entries otherwise it just ruins the credibility of the book!
Overall this book made no sense to me - why bother writing something half factual and half completely fictional to the point where the reader has to fact check every detail to see if any of it is true? Thank you to NetGalley & Icons Books for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for a (very) honest review.
