Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Moore, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349114641 ISBN 13: 9780349114644

Verlag: Abacus, 2001

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( Travelling in a clapped-out Rolls Royce, Moore follows the trail of the first recognised British tourist of Europe, a 17th-century pastor's son named Thomas Coryate.There is certainly something of Bill Bryson in Moore's style, and this book is reminiscent of Neither Here Nor There. He cracks similar slapstick quips and travels with a liberal dose of self-irony. His jokes are frequently brilliantly judged and have you laughing out loud.)

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There won't be a funnier or more original contender until Tim Moore publishes his next volume ... There hasn't been such a fresh voice among itinerant writers since Redmond O'Hanlon or Bill Bryson got started (SPECTATOR)

Regularly had me laughing out loud (SUNDAY TIMES)

His is a rare comic talent, and his debut a brilliantly sustained piece of travel writing (THE TIMES)

One of the funniest travelogues you will ever read (EXPRESS)

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They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours'
Many people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th century heyday, but someone had to do it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing, CRUDITIES, was that man. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryate's early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban and, finally, being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once, Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. And his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures? A clapped-out pink Rolls Royce, of course.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Abacus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0349114641
• ISBN 13: 9780349114644
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384