How to Travel with a Salmon
eBook - ePub

How to Travel with a Salmon

And Other Essays

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eBook - ePub

How to Travel with a Salmon

And Other Essays

About this book

"Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum ( The Atlantic Monthly).
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A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called "the Andy Rooney of academia"ā€”known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster New York Times bestsellersā€”Umberto Eco takes readers on "a delightful romp through the absurdities of modern life" ( Publishers Weekly) as he journeys around the world and into his own wildly adventurous mind.
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From the mundane details of getting around on Amtrak or in the back of a cab, to reflections on computer jargon and soccer fans, to more important issues like the effects of mass media and consumer civilizationā€”not to mention the challenges of trying to refrigerate an expensive piece of fish at an English hotelā€”this renowned writer, semiotician, and philosopher provides "an uncanny combination of the profound and the profane" ( San Francisco Chronicle).
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"Eco entertains with his clever reflections and with his unique persona." ā€” Kirkus Reviews
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Translated from the Italian by William Weaver

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Information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
1995
eBook ISBN
9780547540436
Print ISBN
9780156001250

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. How to Travel with a Salmon
  6. How to Replace a Driverā€™s License
  7. How to Eat in Flight
  8. How to Go Through Customs
  9. How to Travel on American Trains
  10. How to Take Intelligent Vacations
  11. How to Use the Taxi Driver
  12. How Not to Talk about Soccer
  13. How to Use the Coffeepot from Hell
  14. How to React to Familiar Faces
  15. How to Be a TV Host
  16. How Not to Know the Time
  17. Stars and Stripes
  18. Conversation in Babylon
  19. On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1
  20. How to Eat Ice Cream
  21. How It Begins, and How It Ends
  22. How to Justify a Private Library
  23. How to Compile an Inventory
  24. How to Spend Time
  25. How to Buy Gadgets
  26. How to Follow Instructions
  27. How to Become a Knight of Malta
  28. How to Deal with Telegrams
  29. How Not to Use the Fax Machine
  30. How Not to Use the Cellular Phone
  31. Three Owls on a Chest of Drawers
  32. Editorial Revision
  33. Sequels
  34. How to Use Suspension Points
  35. How to Write an Introduction
  36. How to Write an Introduction to an Art Catalogue
  37. How to Set the Record Straight
  38. How to Watch Out for Widows
  39. How to Organize a Public Library
  40. How to Speak of Animals
  41. How to Play Indians
  42. How to Recognize a Porn Movie
  43. How to Avoid Contagious Diseases
  44. How to Choose a Remunerative Profession
  45. The Miracle of San Baudolino
  46. About the Author
  47. Connect with HMH
  48. Footnotes