How to Travel with a Salmon

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Publication Year:
1995

ISBN-13: 9780547540436

<DIV><B>&ldquo;Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent&rdquo; essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of <I>The Name of the Rose</I> and <I>Foucault&rsquo;s Pendulum</I> (<I>The Atlantic Monthly</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> called &ldquo;the Andy Rooney of academia&rdquo;&mdash;known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster <I>New York Times</I> bestsellers&mdash;Umberto Eco takes readers on &ldquo;a delightful romp through the absurdities of modern life&rdquo; (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>) as he journeys around the world and into his own wildly adventurous mind.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> From the mundane details of getting around on Amtrak or in the back of a cab, to reflections on computer jargon and soccer fans, to more important issues like the effects of mass media and consumer civilization&mdash;not to mention the challenges of trying to refrigerate an expensive piece of fish at an English hotel&mdash;this renowned writer, semiotician, and philosopher provides &ldquo;an uncanny combination of the profound and the profane&rdquo; (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Eco entertains with his clever reflections and with his unique persona.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Kirkus Reviews</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /><I>Translated from the Italian by William Weaver</I></DIV>