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How To Travel With A Salmon & Other Essays (Harvest Book) Paperback - 1995
by Eco, Umberto
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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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- Title How To Travel With A Salmon & Other Essays (Harvest Book)
- Author Eco, Umberto
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperVia, New York
- Date 1995-09-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 015600125X-4-30682229
- ISBN 9780156001250 / 015600125X
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.44 x 0.63 in (20.22 x 13.82 x 1.60 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95016885
- Dewey Decimal Code 854.912
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Summary
In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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- New York Times, 12/10/1995, Page 44