How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0312366922 / Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, July 2007
Presents an illustrated compendium of offbeat, ill-conceived, but real advice taken from the pages of classic travel guides, covering such helpful tips as how to use an anthill as an oven, how to hunt hippos and elephants with a javelin, and why one should sleep on top of a billiard table to avoid vermin.
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No traveler to date has matched the intrepid 19th-century gentleman for his bravery, derring-do, and ability to make a perfect cup of tea in the most malarial of climes. But the sun has set on the golden age of exploration, and the records of these fearless, mustachioed adventurers have vanished from the shelves. In their place have appeared timorous travel guides written by authors who could hardly locate Rhodesia on a classroom globe let alone comment on the proper etiquette of an Italian duel.Now, with the publication of Vic Darkwood’s How to Make Friends and Oppress People, at long last today's aspiring adventurers can avail themselves of the best of classic travel advice on such invaluable topics as:-Using Anthills as Ovens-Hunting Elephants and Hippos with a Javelin-Sleeping on a Billiard Table as a Means of Avoiding Vermin -Digging a Well with a Pointy StickFully illustrated with over 150 drawings and woodcuts, this inestimable collection of wisdom drawn from actual 19th- and early 20th-century guidebooks will prove essential to any traveler looking to enjoy his excursion abroad or hoping to avoid death at the hands of inhospitable natives.
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