The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places (Picador original)

Mark Lawson

ISBN 10: 0330331612 / ISBN 13: 9780330331616

Published by Picador 14/01/1994, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places (Picador original)
• Publisher: Picador 14/01/1994
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330331612
• ISBN 13: 9780330331616
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Beginning in Timaru, reputedly the most activity-challenged place in New Zealand, Lawson travels through Australia and Canada, where he learns to be especially wary of any place named after Queen Victoria or her close relatives. After dropping in on Normal, Illinois, and Dead Horse, Alaska - place names in the quiet world are sometimes disarmingly honest - he travels through soothing Switzerland, Milton Keynes, and Belgium, before his journey's end in EuroDisney, Expo '92, and Center Parcs: territories of Somewhere, the new tourist continent where, in a reversal of the usual rules of travel, countries come to you.

About the Author

Mark Lawson is a novelist and cultural critic. He has published four novels including Idlewild, Going Out Live and Enough Is Enough. His work as a broadcaster includes presenting Radio 4's Front Row and Foreign Bodies - A History of Crime Fiction and BBC4's Mark Lawson Talks to ... He also writes for the Guardian and the New Statesman.