The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places

by Mark Lawson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.18

  Many a travel book records a journey across the desert, over the rapids or through the jungle with only the barest supplies. Such travellers are admirable but - in their quest for bizarre transport - the genre has ignored whole swathes of modern civilization. The author of this book sets out to rectify this, with visits to places such as New Zealand, Australia, Alaska, Middle America, Switzerland, Brussels and Milton Keynes.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.24

  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.