Surprise Castle
/Books/Travel/Travel Essays
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays - Paperback

by Umberto Eco
$12.99
$16.95
-23%
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Offers & Perks

Earn 12 points with this purchase

Added to your rewards balance after checkout.

100 points welcome bonus

Create an account and start with extra points.

Join now
How rewards workSign in
Availability:In StockContributor:Umberto Eco, William WeaverSeries:Harvest BookPublish date:1995-09-01Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156001250ISBN-10:015600125XUPC:9780156001250Book Category:Literary Collections, Travel, HumorBook Subcategory:Essays, Essays & Travelogues, TopicBook Topic:TravelSize:7.96 x 5.44 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCHWMQH2B0

A collection of "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose

How to Travel With a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo--minimal diaries--after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody." These essays are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal taxi drivers, express mail, multi-function watches, fax machines and cell phones, pornography, soccer fans, academia, and--last but definitely not least--the author's own self.

"Very funny." --The New York Review of Books

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156001250ISBN-10:015600125XUPC:9780156001250Book Category:Literary Collections, Travel, HumorBook Subcategory:Essays, Essays & Travelogues, TopicBook Topic:TravelSize:7.96 x 5.44 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCHWMQH2B0
Eco, Umberto: - UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Contributor(s)

Umberto Eco, William Weaver

Author

Umberto Eco

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Eligible items may be returned within 30 days of delivery. Conditions apply.