A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Pearson, Harry

 
9780349112060: A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0349112061 ISBN 13: 9780349112060
Editorial: Abacus, 1999

Sinopsis

Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of legendary banality: Belgium. But can any nation whose most famous monument is a statue of a small boy urinating really be that dull? Pearson lived there for several months, burying himself in the local culture. He drank many of the 800 different beers the Belgians produce; ate local delicacies such as kip kap (jellied pig cheeks) and a mighty tonnage of chicory and chips. In one restaurant the house speciality was 'Hare in the style of grandmother'. 'I didn't order it. I quite like hare, but had no wish to see one wearing zip-up boots and a blue beret.' A TALL MAN IN A LOW LAND commemorates strange events such as The Festival of Shrimps at Oostduinkerke and laments the passing of the Underpant Museum in Brussels. No reader will go away from A TALL MAN IN A LOW LAND without being able to name at least ten famous Belgians. Mixing evocative description and low-grade buffoonery Harry Pearson paints a portrait of Belgium that is more rounded than a Smurf after a night on the mussels.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Harry Pearson was born and brought up on the edge of Teesside. He is the author of eight works of non-fiction. The Far Corner - A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football, was runner-up for the William Hill Prize and has been named as one of the Fifty Greatest Sports Books of All Time by both the Observer and The Times. He wrote a weekly sports column in the Guardian from 1996 to 2012, and won the 2011 MCC/Cricket Society Prize for his book about Northern club cricket, Slipless in Settle. He lives in Northumberland.

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Editorial
Abacus
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0349112061
ISBN 13 
9780349112060
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780316647342: A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0316647349 ISBN 13:  9780316647342
Editorial: Little, Brown & Company, 1998
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