Name: Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education (en Inglés)
SKU: 18740989
Price: 466.06 MXN
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Author: Simkins, Michael
ISBN: 9780091927530

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Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Michael Simkins

Editorial

Ebury Press

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.3x12.4x2.3 cm

Peso

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0091927536

ISBN13

9780091927530

Categorías

Francia
Historia de europa
Literatura de viajes

Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education (en Inglés)

Michael Simkins (Autor) · Ebury Press · Tapa Blanda

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Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt--helpfully upheld by his partner Julia--that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes, his utter lack of travel experience (Weymouth, Cleethorpes, and a day trip to Dieppe) still has the power to shock people into leaving dinner parties early. So as he hits middle-age, Michael takes up the challenge of broadening his horizons. He decides to improve himself in the same way English gentlemen lacking refined edges have for centuries: by learning from their more cultured French neighbours. Michael, an English provincial ingenue, sets off to discover just what the Gallic nation can teach him and the rest of us Anglo-Saxons about living the good life. Armed only with 50 Useful Phrases in French, he waits to see if his odyssey from La Manche to the Riviera will finally turn him from the scotch-egg eating spawn of Anne Widdecombe and John McCririck into the champagne-sipping love child of Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve. Julia is saying a prayer for him at Lourdes.