Grandeur of the Dooms

Name: Grandeur of the Dooms
Brand: Derrydale Press
SKU: 9781586671068
Price: 15207 HUF
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Sacred and Profane Adventures of a Modern American Among the English and European Aristocracy

Szerző: Crispin Culbertson

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Derrydale Press

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Travel with Luke Randolph as he meets the wackiest and most uninhibited collection of characters eve...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Crispin Culbertson

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2005

oldal

128

EAN

9781586671068

ISBN

1586671065

Enbook ID

05086301

Kiadó

Derrydale Press

Súly

322

Méretek

161 x 230 x 15

Teljes leírás

Travel with Luke Randolph as he meets the wackiest and most uninhibited collection of characters ever to cut a swath through the exclusive clubs and ancestral homes of the English and European upper classes. Here is a thoroughly modern, sometimes madcap, sometimes serious perspective on the social worlds of thoroughbred racing, bobsledding, foxhunting, and boar stalking, and a lifestyle that, though waning, continues to fascinate us. Grandeur of the Dooms transports the reader from the creamy shade of Buck's tent at Ascot to the search for a dissolute and dangerous Mexican jockey in a Texas border town; to St. Moritz, Switzerland, where suicidal young bloods run the Cresta on bobsleds; and to Vienna, where a young American triumphs against a five hundred pound boar with hatred and bloodlust in its eyes, only to discover that worse demons are yet to be faced. Here is a world where firelight reflects off polished brass, the Viennese snow squeaks underfoot, and skeet is shot in the drawing room.

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