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Synopsis
It began with an accidental daytrip to an intriguingly awful resort
on the Thames Estuary, and ended 3,812 miles later: one man's
journey through deep-fried, brownfield, poundshop Britain, a crash
course in urban blight, deranged civic planning and commercial
eccentricity. Following an itinerary drawn up from surveys, polls,
reviews and lazy personal prejudice, Tim Moore goes to all the
places that nobody wants to go to - the bleakest towns, the
shonkiest hotels, the scariest pubs, the silliest sea zoos. He
visits the grid reference adjudged by the Ordnance Survey to be the
least interesting point in Britain, and is chased out of the new
town twice crowned Scotland's Most Dismal Place. His palate is
flayed alive by horrific regional foodstuffs, his ears shrivelled
by the 358 least loved tracks in the history of native popular
music. With his progress entrusted to our motor industry's
fittingly hopeless finale, he comes to learn that Britain seems
very much larger when you're driving around it in a Bulgarian-built
Austin Maestro. Yet as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds, so it
evolves into something much more stirring: a nostalgic celebration
of our magnificent mercantile pomp, and an angry requiem for a
golden age of cheerily homespun crap culture being swept aside by
the faceless, soul-stripping forces of Tesco-town globalisation.
Product detail
| Imprint |
Jonathan Cape
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| Country of origin |
United Kingdom |
| Release date |
March 2012 |
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| Authors |
Tim Moore
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| Dimensions |
216 x 134 x 22mm (L x W x H) |
| Format |
Paperback
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| Pages |
276 |
| ISBN-13 |
978-0-224-09011-7 |
| Barcode |
9780224090117 |
| Categories |
Humour
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| LSN |
0-224-09011-9 |
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