The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase (Häftad)
avMatthew Parris
ISBN: 9780241957080 - UTGIVEN: 2013-07The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister[...]
Parting Shots (Häftad)
avMatthew Parris
ISBN: 9780670919291 - UTGIVEN: 201106Up till 2006 a British Ambassador leaving his post was encouraged to write what was known as a valedictory despatch, to be circulated to a small number of influential people in government. This was the parting shot, an opportunity to offer a personal and frank view of the host country, the manners a[...]
Inca Kola (Storpocket)
avMatthew Parris
ISBN: 9781857990768 - UTGIVEN: 1993-08A modern classic of travel and adventure. INCA KOLA is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris's fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants and riots. He and his three companions seem to head into trouble, not away from it, and he describes [...]
