Vic Darkwood
Autor(a) de How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer
Obras de Vic Darkwood
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Jolly, Nicholas
- Data de nascimento
- 1962
- Sexo
- male
- Educação
- West Sussex College of Art and Design
Gloucestershire College of Art and Design
Royal Academy Schools - Ocupação
- artist
publisher
author - Organizações
- The Chap
Membros
Resenhas
The Gentleman's Guide to Motoring de Vic Darkwood
Another fine, humourous work from the Darkwood stable, with his by now customary skilful manipulation of images and unerring eye for an amusing vignette or vintage text.
Written around the diary entries of several British Travelers/Adventurers around the end of the 19th century, this is a tongue-in-cheek look and the privilege that that particular class of gentlemen was able to exercise in their pursuit of sport and leisure. It contains advice on how to plan, what to pack, how to weather the local conditions, how to pick a traveling partner (never a spouse), and many tips (in condescending style) on how to maintain control over the "help". Although meant to be humorous, and obviously exagerated, it says a lot about the colonialist mindset.… (mais)
Funnier even than "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe", this exercise in disgraceful foppery and debonair decadence deserves a place on every gentleman's mantleshelf, next to his opium pipe. It is wise, witty, howlingly funny and the perfect antidote to a journey by Virgin trains.
Witty and engaging, this is a selection of priceless pearls of travel lore from travellers' and explorers' guides of the nineteenth century strung together by the inimitable prose of Mr Vic Darkwood. An excellent read, ideal for journeys in your armchair!
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 115
- Popularidade
- #170,830
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 6
- Idiomas
- 1