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Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación. Financed by a bet with a Yeovil linen draper, court jester Thomas Coryate's 1608 journey to Venice and back was an unlikely template for the Grand Tour.Almost four hundred years later, Tim Moore put on a ridiculous velvet suit and set off in Coryate's tracks at the wheel of a senile and incontinent Rolls-Royce. Treading an uneasy line between Coryate's turnip-stealing frugality and the bawdy self-indulgence of the later Grand Tourists, Moore's confrontations with Continental croupiers, nudists, sugar-beet farmers and offshore welders are a grotesque blend of Baldrick and the Blackadder.While charting the decline of the Grand Tour from the sombre academy of cultural betterment to the Club 18-30 of the 1830s, Moore also resurrects the reputation of Coryate, whose reward for introducing the fork to Britain and coining the word 'umbrella' was ridicule, poverty and an almost unbearably poignant ending in India.
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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 TIMES)
His is a rare comic talent, and his debut a brilliantly sustained piece of travel writing (THE TIMES)
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Regularly had me laughing out loud (SUNDAY TIMES)
His is a rare comic talent, and his debut a brilliantly sustained piece of travel writing (THE TIMES)
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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 in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryate's early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban and, finally, being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once, Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. And his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures? A clapped-out pink Rolls Royce, of course.
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Descripción Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 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 in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryate's early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban and, finally, being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once, Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. And his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures A clapped-out pink Rolls Royce, of course. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England. Coryate's early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban and being vomited on by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780349114194
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