Jetlag Travel Guide To Molvania - Softcover

Cilauro, Santo; Gleisner, Tom; Sitch, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143050184 ISBN 13: 9780143050186

Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2004

Synopsis

The funniest book about travel you will ever read: a travel guide to the fictional European republic 'Molvania', birthplace of the polka and whooping cough. The text and design draw on the standard travel guide format and include: background information on the destination, including cultural details, useful phrases, holidays, and calendar of events; accommodation and restaurant listings; activities and excursions; as well as text break-outs, colour photos and maps throughout.

About this title

About the Author:

The jetlag travel guide to molvania is written by Australia's most successful satirical team.Their work has included internationally successful feature films and TV shows.

From The New Yorker:

The Republic of Molvanîa, known as the birthplace of whooping cough and the Molvanîan Sneezing Hound, has been largely ignored by the backpacking set in its sweep through post-Communist Europe. This may have something to do with the country's miserable landscape, miserable weather, miserable food, and miserable, surly populace; on the other hand, it may have something to do with the fact that Molvanîa doesn't exist. In format and page layout, this inspired send-up of a travel guide looks exactly like the real thing, and it displays an acute feel for all the clichés of the genre, including testimonials that instruct how to have an uncomfortable "authentic" experience, rather than a "bland, westernized" one. The nation's new national anthem is set to the tune of "What a Feeling," from the movie "Flashdance" useful phrases include the Molvanîan for "Please," "Thank you," "May God send you a sturdy donkey," and "What is that smell?"
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0143050184
• ISBN 13: 9780143050186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Illustrated