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The Lost Art of Travel: A Handbook for the Modern Adventurer [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Vic Darkwood (Author)

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Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; illustrated edition edition (2 Nov 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0719560659
ISBN-13: 978-0719560651
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3 cm

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"'At last, a sensible alternative to the usual travel guides with all their sordid advice. An essential companion to any serious (English) traveller' Jack Dee 'Do not dread an occasional night in the open when you are benighted and have no camp. There are few beds more comfortable than a dry ditch in England in June' Frank Tatchell, Vicar of Midhurst, 1923 'Every lady should, to my mind, know how to use a revolver. She may at any time be in China or some other country where there are savage natives' Walter Winans, 1904 * 'Welcome to the cult of couth' - Independent * 'Let Darkwood's rallying cry - "Civility, Poetry, Martini" - ring in smoking rooms and gentlemen's bedchambers everywhere' - ES Magazine"

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5.0 out of 5 stars Armchair travel, using native bearers, 27 Mar 2008

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For anyone who has read The Chap the tone will be familiar. Mr Darkwood takes passages from obscure, archaic travel tomes and stitches them together in his own anarchic, amiable idiom.

Discover the way to amuse yourself with large predators, or how to cross the rockies in a chair, using a single servant. Perhaps you wish to avoid bed bugs in Germany or learn to drink with Dutchmen. It is all here. A thousand times more informative than those awful "hip places" travel guides with which you are probably more familiar, but beware: the establishments and locations mentioned may well have changed somewhat in the intervening 150 years.

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