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How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays

✍ Scribed by Eco, Umberto

Book ID
107006750
Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
190 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780099428633

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In these ''impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent'' essays (Atlantic Monthly), ''the Andy Rooney of academia'' (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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