The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places

The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places

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Publisher's Synopsis

Beginning in Timaru, reputedly the most activity-challenged place in New Zealand, Lawson travels through Australia and Canada, where he learns to be especially wary of any place named after Queen Victoria or her close relatives. After dropping in on Normal, Illinois and Dead Horse, Alaska - place names in the quiet world are sometimes disarmingly honest - he travels through soothing Switzerland, Milton Keynes, and Belgium, before his journey's end in EuroDisney, Expo '92, and Center Parcs: territories of Somewhere, the new tourist continent where, in a reversal of the usual rules of travel, countries come to you.

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Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781447266679
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: On Demand
DEWEY: 910.4
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 291
Weight: 466g
Height: 236mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 24mm