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How to Live like a Lord Without Really Trying
Shepherd Mead
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Description for How to Live like a Lord Without Really Trying
Hardcover. This satirical handbook for fellow Americans is a guide to the nuances of British culture in the 1960s. Deftly illustrated with dynamic cartoons, it's packed with gems on Anglo-American differences and pithy advice which tells us as much about the British of the 1960s as it does about their visitors from across the Pond. Num Pages: 208 pages, 36 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; JFC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360. 208 pages, 36 black & white illustrations. This satirical handbook for fellow Americans is a guide to the nuances of British culture in the 1960s. Deftly illustrated with dynamic cartoons, it's packed with gems on Anglo-American differences and pithy advice which tells us as much about the British of the 1960s as it does about their visitors from across the Pond. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; JFC; WH. Dimension: 139 x 198 x 23. Weight: 360.
Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow Americans to guide them through the nuances of British culture and save them from blunders: ‘Write down now that pants always mean underpants’, he advises. ‘What you wear out in the open are trousers. Mistakes in this area can lead to nasty misunderstandings.’
Structured around the fictional experience of an American couple Peggy and Buckley Brash and their two children, the book ... Read more
Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow Americans to guide them through the nuances of British culture and save them from blunders: ‘Write down now that pants always mean underpants’, he advises. ‘What you wear out in the open are trousers. Mistakes in this area can lead to nasty misunderstandings.’
Structured around the fictional experience of an American couple Peggy and Buckley Brash and their two children, the book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851242795
SKU
V9781851242795
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Ref
99-50
About Shepherd Mead
Shepherd Mead had a successful career in a US advertising firm and was the author of 'How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying'. He moved to the UK in 1958, where he spent the rest of his life.
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