How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco

How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco

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By the author of "The Name of the Rose", these essays offer advice on unusual subjects - how to recognize a porno film, how to take an intelligent holiday - as well as discussing weightier matters in such pieces as "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1".

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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco

By the author of "The Name of the Rose", this collection of essays offers advice on a wide range of unusual subjects - how to recognize a porno film, how to take an intelligent holiday, how not to talk about football, how to protect oneself from widows - as well as discussing weightier matters of history, politics, economics, literature and philosophy, in such pieces as "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1" and "Three Owls on a Chest of Drawers".
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ISBN 13 9780749397098
ISBN 10 0749397098
Title How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
Author Umberto Eco
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1995-05-15
Number of pages 240
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