Tall Man In A Low Land (eBook)

Some Time Among the Belgians

Harry Pearson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
256 Seiten
Little, Brown Book Group (Verlag)
978-0-349-13972-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of legendary banality: Belgium. But can any nation whose most famous monument is a statue of a small boy urinating really be that dull? Pearson lived there for several months, burying himself in the local culture. He drank many of the 800 different beers the Belgians produce; ate local delicacies such as kip kap (jellied pig cheeks) and a mighty tonnage of chicory and chips. In one restaurant the house speciality was 'Hare in the style of grandmother'. 'I didn't order it. I quite like hare, but had no wish to see one wearing zip-up boots and a blue beret.' A TALL MAN IN A LOW LAND commemorates strange events such as The Festival of Shrimps at Oostduinkerke and laments the passing of the Underpant Museum in Brussels. No reader will go away from A TALL MAN IN A LOW LAND without being able to name at least ten famous Belgians. Mixing evocative description and low-grade buffoonery Harry Pearson paints a portrait of Belgium that is more rounded than a Smurf after a night on the mussels.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• ISBN-10: 0-349-13972-5 / 0349139725
• ISBN-13: 978-0-349-13972-2 / 9780349139722