In Passing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Randall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baker, Randall--Travel--Anecdotes.

Baker, Randall.

College teachers.

Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

In Passing

Place of Publication:

: Y Lolfa, 2019.

Summary:

An unusual collection of fascinating, offbeat anecdotes from the life of a much-travelled Welsh professor. The stories become more and more unlikely - though all are true! Randall Baker has a real talent for making the mundane marvellous, in an engaging, humorous style with echoes of P G Wodehouse.

Contents:

Intro

Before You Start

First instalment: Being British

1 - Train of thought

2 - Rite of passage: The Welsh passion for funerals

3 - Cars for concern: Hiding one's light under the boot

4 - Coming out of the closet, or The Dutch lieutenant's jacket

5 - Fighting unemployment in rural Norfolk

6 - Up, up and… uh-oh

7 - Adventures in eating

Second instalment: Foreign Parts

8 - Why are you photographing that church? An innocent encounters Ohio 1964

9 - Two cups of coffee, a brown paper bag and a magic carpet or two

10 - The case of the homicidal optometrist

11 - The hypnotic briefcase

12 - Typhoons, lettuce and temporal displacement

13 - On the banks of the mystic Nile

14 - Elephant, white nights and an amorous hound

15 - The unexpected stripper

16 - The elixir of life, eternal love, and a Swiss roll

17 - Strange doings in Terre Haute.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78461-793-8

OCLC:

1152301165