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Off the beaten track

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Captain Cook confidently declaring that no man will ever venture further than he has ...Richard Burton musing on how to keep a wife alive in the tropics ...the unreliable Sir John Mandeville spinning his traveller's tales ...OFF THE BEATEN TRACK is a collection of quotations from intrepid travellers such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Marco Polo, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Mary Kingsley, Isabella Bird, Captain Scott and Freya Stark- all of them are here, some of them awe-struck at the majesty of their surroundings and others distinctly unimpressed.

Laura Stoddart's delicious illustrations seize on the unexpected, and make a comment on what the author doesn't say.

Her many admirers will find this wittily chosen anthology has all the charm of her very successful first book, UP THE GARDEN PATH

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Product Details
0752858955 / 9780752858951
Paperback / softback
910
03/06/2004
United Kingdom
English
80 p. : col. ill.
19 cm
general /teenage Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 2002.
From the author of the hugely popular UP THE GARDEN PATH, which reprints regularly Laura Stoddart's distinctive work has brought her wide recognition and a devoted following She was the youngest artist ever to be commissioned to design the Christmas stamps for the Royal Mail and her work appears on cards, gift wrap, and in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic 'Whether you are an intrepid adventurer or an armchair traveller, this new anthology of travellers' quotations by Laura Stoddart will inspire faraway dreams' Daily Express 'Stoddart focuses on the prose of famous travellers and comes u
From the author of the hugely popular UP THE GARDEN PATH, which reprints regularly Laura Stoddart's distinctive work has brought her wide recognition and a devoted following She was the youngest artist ever to be commissioned to design the Christmas stamps for the Royal Mail and her work appears on cards, gift wrap, and in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic 'Whether you are an intrepid adventurer or an armchair traveller, this new anthology of travellers' quotations by Laura Stoddart will inspire faraway dreams' Daily Express 'Stoddart focuses on the prose of famous travellers and comes u GBCQ Dictionaries of quotations, WT Travel & holiday