Description
Product ID: | 9780349114194 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Continental Drifter |
Subtitle: | Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist |
Authors: | Author: Tim Moore |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Travel writing, Travel writing, Western Continental Europe |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Tim Moore, 'a contender for Bill Bryson's crown as king of comic travels' (SUNDAY TIMES), charts the decline of the Grand Tour from sombre academy of cultural betterment to the Club 18-30 of the 1830s 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'' |
Imprint Name: | Abacus |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2002-05-02 |