Continental Drifter
Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist
$39.63
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2002
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349114194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349114196 |
| Author: | Tim Moore |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2002 |
| Weight: | 265g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 26mm |
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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 TIMESHis is a rare comic talent, and his debut a brilliantly sustained piece of travel writing - THE TIMESOne of the funniest travelogues you will ever read - EXPRESSAbout The Author
Tim Moore
Failed dandy Tim Moore lives in West London with his wife and slightly too many children. His writing has appeared in several publications including the SUNDAY TIMES, the INDEPENDENT, the OBSERVER, ESQUIRE and the EVENING STANDARD.
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