Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
188 Words for Rain
Buch
- A delightfully damp tour of the British Isles, led by natural forces (an official BBC Weather book)
- Ebury Publishing, 11/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781785948541
- Bestellnummer: 11878800
- Umfang: 208 Seiten
- Gewicht: 500 g
- Maße: 222 x 138 mm
- Stärke: 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.11.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our islands have hundreds of words and phrases for rain, some self-explanatory and others that really leave us scratching our heads. From a light smirr in Aberdeen to a "it''s raining knives and forks!" in the Brecon Beacons, each type of rain tells a story about the people and places it falls on.
In this delightfully damp tour of the British Isles, writer and puddle-splasher Alan Connor digs deep into the meaning and quirky histories of over one hundred words for precipitation. He gets caught in a plash in Northumberland, crashes a fox''s wedding in Devon and ponders the phenomenon of Brits-who-picnic-in-the-car, in this charming and witty celebration of our very British obsession.
Alan Connor
188 Words for Rain
EUR 22,44*