Maps of My Life
Browning, Guy
ISBN 10: 0224082728 ISBN 13: 9780224082723
Published by Square Peg, 2008
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Signed by Author(s) Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Seller Inventory # 091282
Synopsis:
Guy Browning, author of the No 1 bestselling "Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade" and popular longstanding "Guardian" columnist, finally turns his unique attention to a rich new comic seam - his own deeply eccentric and far-flung upbringing. Weaned on maps, educated by maps, surrounded by maps and ever so slightly in love with maps, Guy Browning presents a selection of intriguing and quirkily annotated cartographic gems to chart his unsteady progress from pewling toddler to pewling young man via the furthest corners of the Alps, Niagara Falls, the Mediterranean, Central America and darkest Chipping Norton."Maps of My Life" revisits the richly comic highways, byways and unpaved tracks of Guy's unusually peripatetic early years, peopled with unforgettable relatives, friends and foe such as the Fatted Calf, the Sainted One, Langton Machoko and Marshal LaPoulette...Beautifully produced with full-colour maps throughout, "Maps of My Life" is one of the funniest autobiographical travel memoirs since Bill Bryson's "The Lost Continent".
About the Author:
Guy Browning comes from a long line of English eccentrics who, for many centuries, have contributed almost nothing to the great sweep of history. He is currently continuing that proud tradition on a small farm in Oxfordshire, raising rare breeds of human being.
In his spare time, he has written, amongst other books, Office Politics, Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade, Go Home Early, Maps of My Life, How to Be Normal and, most recently, The British Constitution: First Draft.
www.guybrowning.co.uk
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Maps of My Life
Publisher: Square Peg
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)I
Edition: 1st Edition.