LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard guise

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard guise

  • Old Geezer’s Dictionary of Irritants. From Aaaah to Zoo, over a thousand annoying aspects of British life
    Richard Guise
    All day, every day we’re surrounded by things that annoy us. So it’s surprising we’ve had to wait until now for a reasonable list. Speaking up for irritated people all over Britain, the Old Geezer’s Dictionary of Irritants points a decisive finger at offenders, with both gusto and humour. ...
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    15,24 €

  • Around France with Thicknesse and Smelfungus
    Richard Guise
    For many Britons France has provided their first taste of that alien world called ’abroad’ - and sometimes their last. Richard Guise has tracked down ten travellers’ tales from three centuries, before venturing forth himself to follow some of their wanderings across the country. He finds out what’s left from the sights they saw and how dramatically the country and its people ch...
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    18,12 €

  • Life in the Old Dogs Yet
    Richard Guise
    Four English blokes of a certain age strike out from their Leicestershire local and head for the hills of the Dingle Peninsula. This laugh-out-loud tale of their short amble on the wild west coast of Ireland is packed with character and characters, beer and banter, daftness and a dolphin. ...
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    11,79 €

  • Nothing Between Here and The Urals
    Richard Guise
    'The reason the wind is so cold is that there's nothing between here and the Urals'. A casual remark by his father, to which no one else seems to have paid the slightest attention, sets Richard Guise off on an unlikely adventure. Fifty years after standing on that chilly Leicestershire hilltop, he aims to prove his father wrong. A quest for truth, beer and jokes through Englan...
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    10,48 €

  • Neddytown
    Richard Guise
    The Derbyshire villages of Draycott and Church Wilne have dozed quietly beside the left bank of the Derwent for more than a thousand years, barely registering a mention even in the history of the area. But have things really been as quiet as that? What about the case of the dodgy 18th-century vicar? The flying corpse? The combustible cricketer? And more disastrous, but unexplai...
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    10,18 €