Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain, Gebunden
188 Words for Rain
- A Delightfully Damp Tour of the British Isles, Led by Natural Forces (an Official BBC Weather Book)
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- Verlag:
- Random House UK, 01/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781785948541
- Artikelnummer:
- 11878800
- Umfang:
- 208 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 500 g
- Maße:
- 222 x 138 mm
- Stärke:
- 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 7.1.2025
- Hinweis
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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.
