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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Stomping the quintessential Highlands from Inverness to Skye and risking frozen extremities to reach breathtaking Hebridean islands, Charles Jennings discovers a land of awe-inspiring beauty. Contemplating whether his great grandfather's legacy qualifies him to shed a tear at the sound of bagpipes, Jennings compares the elegance of Edinbugh with the industrial action of Aberdeen, risks a pint in Kelvinside, and sinks into the peaty bogs of Mull.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Charles Jennings | | Paperback: | 256 pages | | Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group | | Publication Date: | June 01, 2002 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0349114404 | | Product Width: | 0.0 centimeters | | Product Height: | 0.0 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.56 inches | | Package Width: | 4.96 inches | | Package Height: | 0.71 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.49 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 3 reviews |
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 Enjoyed following Jennings on a mini-tour of Scotland Feb 19, 2012
By Debnance at Readerbuzz
The jabs Jennings, as an Englishman, makes at Scotland were, as a whole, outside my experience, and would have been better appreciated by a Scot or a fellow Englishman. I did enjoy following Jennings on a mini-tour of Scotland though, at times, I might have asked for a bit of a more jovial host.
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 Stick With Bill Bryson May 29, 2003
I found this book to be anything but the 'hilarious' work it's cover claimed it to be. It is mostly cynical, sarcastic, and insulting mixed with long periods of boredom. I found little entertainment value between its covers. If you want a travel essay written in the style of Bill Bryson, stick with Bill Bryson. Charles Jennings doesn't come close.
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Was it supposed to be this bad? Jun 13, 2007
By Mark E. Baxter
"Inquirer"
This book is purportedly a humorous look at travel in Scotland. Well, the author was in Scotland and travelling but I'm not so sure about the humor.
Now I have just as many bad preconceptions about Scotland as the next guy. I still remember my uncle Angus Stewart stomping on the head of my pet rabbit so we could eat it for dinner. But reading this made me understand how the rabbit must have felt. And Scottish blood notwithstanding, I have never felt the need to wear an expensive dress made of the finest Moroccan wool assembled in Turkey. I've never eaten haggis, thrown a caber, or bought a CD of bagpipe music. So maybe I just don't get it.
I just don't understand how this author can visit some of the world's great cities and have nothing more to write about than how he got wet because he was too manly to buy an umbrella. Just a suggestion to the author, BUY AN UMBRELLA AND A RAIN COAT!
The author also seemed drawn to run-down hotels. He also seemed to enjoy drinking. And every other page or so he would drop the F-bomb. In fact, he did this so often that I had to get a dictionary out to make sure I understood what this word means. Maybe in Great Britain it means something else.
From an American point of view, I rarely knew what the author was referring to. Instead of just describing something, he liked to compare it to obscure British or Scottish Pop culture of the 1950's as near as I can tell. A typical reminiscence would compare some Scottish sight to a bolly he saw once in Fartcestershire. Maybe you have to be a Brit to enjoy that kind of thing.
Interspersed with the interminable walking through the rain to get to a closed attraction (don't they have telephones in Scotland?), were lots of stories and allusions to Kings, Queens (we've got plenty here in the states), and various lower grades of royalty. Surely something interesting must have happened occasionally to a non-blue-blood?
Anyway, I don't recommend this as a travel book, as a commentary on Scotland, nor as humor.
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