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Paperback The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places Book

ISBN: 0330331612

ISBN13: 9780330331616

The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places

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Beginning in Timaru, reputedly the most activity-challenged place in New Zealand, Lawson travels through Australia and Canada, where he learns to be especially wary of any place named after Queen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Solace for stay-at-homers

Are you fed up with people kayaking across the Sahara or absailing down the North Pole. Do Redmond O'Hanlon, Bruce Chatwin and Dervla Murphy make you feel guiltily like a boring couch potato? Here is a travel writer with a difference. Lawson visits only safe places, where nothing ever happens (Dead Horse, Alaska, to give one example) but describes them in a way that, while it doesn't exactly make you want to visit, makes you glad he did. He is witty, observant, tongue-in-cheek and possessed of an acute sense of irony. If you like Bill Bryson, you will love this book.
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