Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Moore, Tim

 
9780099433866: Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0099433869 ISBN 13: 9780099433866
Editorial: Vintage, 2003

Sinopsis

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free.

In Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore, belying his reputation as a player who always paid that -10 fine rather than take a Chance, fearlessly tackles the real thing and along the way tells the story of a game and the city that frames it. Sampling the rags and the riches he stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one in the Old Kent Road, enjoys quality time with Dr Crippen in Pentonville Prison and even winds up at the wrong end of the Water Works pipe. And, solving all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail and many other you certainly wouldn't, Tim Moore reveals how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion.

The stirring travelogue of one man's erratic progress around those 28 streets, stations and utilities, Do Not Pass Go is also an epic and lovingly researched history of London's wayward progress in the 66 years since the launch of the world's most popular board game. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Acerca del autor

Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps, Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like You). He lives in London.

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Editorial
Vintage
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0099433869
ISBN 13 
9780099433866
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
352
Contacto del fabricante
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780224062633: Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair [Idioma Inglés]

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0224062638 ISBN 13:  9780224062633
Editorial: Yellow Jersey Press, 2002
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