The Resource Silly Isles, Eric Campbell
Silly Isles, Eric Campbell
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- Summary
- From the bestselling author of Absurdistan, a hilarious tour through small but very strange places. No man is an island. But lots of strange men live on them. In the Kurils, off northern Japan, World War II is still being fought between Japan and Russia, both hell-bent on claiming this tiny island group as their territory. The Galapagos Islands may be home to some of the world's most astonishing flora and fauna but it's also home to Ecuador's gerrymander ambitions and has the tear gas, riots and police barricades to prove it. Iceland, the world's 'purest' genetic community, is a place where everyone is blonde, beautiful - and thoroughly in-bred as a result of zero immigration. And in Spitzbergen, residents can choose to live in the neat and tidy, polar-bear hunting Norwegian half or in the mountain of garbage, rust and dysfunction that is the Soviet half. In more than a decade of international reporting, Eric Campbell has covered wars, famines, presidencies, and revolution. In the islands he surveys here he finds microcosms of society, complete with long-lasting blood feuds, hidden wars, bizarre histories; all the vanities, hopes and rivalries of great powers. Wry, witty and clever, with a wonderful eye for the absurd, Eric Campbell is the Bill Bryson of the small, odd forgotten places around the world and what they tell us about the human condition
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- "A riotous journey through weird and wounderful places by the bestselling author of Absurdistan"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9780732285944
- Label
- Silly Isles
- Title
- Silly Isles
- Statement of responsibility
- Eric Campbell
- Title variation
- Silly Isles
- Title variation remainder
- no man is an island. But lots of strange men live on them
- Subject
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- trueCampbell, Eric James, 1960- -- Travel
- trueAustralian
- Foreign correspondents -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Travel -- Anecdotes
- Island life -- Anecdotes
- Reporters and reporting
- trueTravel Writing -- General
- trueIslands
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- trueForeign news
- trueJournalists
- trueAustralian literature
- Foreign correspondents -- Travel
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities -- Anecdotes
- trueWar correspondents
- trueForeign correspondents
- trueVoyages and travels
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the bestselling author of Absurdistan, a hilarious tour through small but very strange places. No man is an island. But lots of strange men live on them. In the Kurils, off northern Japan, World War II is still being fought between Japan and Russia, both hell-bent on claiming this tiny island group as their territory. The Galapagos Islands may be home to some of the world's most astonishing flora and fauna but it's also home to Ecuador's gerrymander ambitions and has the tear gas, riots and police barricades to prove it. Iceland, the world's 'purest' genetic community, is a place where everyone is blonde, beautiful - and thoroughly in-bred as a result of zero immigration. And in Spitzbergen, residents can choose to live in the neat and tidy, polar-bear hunting Norwegian half or in the mountain of garbage, rust and dysfunction that is the Soviet half. In more than a decade of international reporting, Eric Campbell has covered wars, famines, presidencies, and revolution. In the islands he surveys here he finds microcosms of society, complete with long-lasting blood feuds, hidden wars, bizarre histories; all the vanities, hopes and rivalries of great powers. Wry, witty and clever, with a wonderful eye for the absurd, Eric Campbell is the Bill Bryson of the small, odd forgotten places around the world and what they tell us about the human condition
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10600415
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Campbell, Eric James
- Dewey number
- 910.914
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Campbell, Eric James
- Travel
- Island life
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Foreign correspondents
- Islands
- Reporters and reporting
- War correspondents
- Foreign correspondents
- Foreign news
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Silly Isles, Eric Campbell
- Note
- "A riotous journey through weird and wounderful places by the bestselling author of Absurdistan"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- still image
- text
- Content type code
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- sti
- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059478671
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780732285944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)968209469
- Label
- Silly Isles, Eric Campbell
- Note
- "A riotous journey through weird and wounderful places by the bestselling author of Absurdistan"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- still image
- text
- Content type code
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- sti
- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059478671
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780732285944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)968209469
Subject
- trueAustralian
- trueAustralian literature
- trueCampbell, Eric James, 1960- -- Travel
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities -- Anecdotes
- trueForeign correspondents
- Foreign correspondents -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Foreign correspondents -- Travel
- trueForeign news
- Island life -- Anecdotes
- trueIslands
- trueJournalists
- Reporters and reporting
- Travel -- Anecdotes
- trueTravel Writing -- General
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWar correspondents
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