How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays
By (Author) Umberto Eco
Vintage Publishing
Vintage
6th April 2001
16th April 2001
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
854.912
Paperback
240
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
172g
From the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose, here is a dazzling compendium of advice offering the correct answers to these and many other important questions. 'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or sharing a sleeping compartment with Claudia Schiffer' From the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose, here is a dazzling compendium of advice offering the correct answers to these and many other important questions. Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umberto Eco guides us with all his customary wit and brilliance through the complexities of the modern world.
Umberto Eco (1932-2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.