How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
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Publisher : Vintage Books
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0099428636
ISBN-13 : 9780099428633
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Book Synopsis How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by : Umberto Eco

Download or read book How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays written by Umberto Eco and published by Vintage Books. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco's playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, express mail, fax machines and pornography. "An uncanny combination of the profound and the profane".--San Francisco Chronicle.


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