ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND: It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. With a kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes ...and on the way back from her sister''s wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom. The author, armed with this knowledge and Rornan''s invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty-four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane. CHANGING PLANES is an intriguing, enticing mixture of GULLIVER''S TRAVELS and THE HITCH HIKER''S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world''s best writers.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Gollancz - Cassell Group
ISBN: 9780575076235
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 224
Tiempo de lectura:
4h 35m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/01/2005
Año de edición: 2005
Plaza de edición: Reino Unido
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, nacida en Berkeley (California) en 1929 y fallecida en Portland (Oregón) en 2018, cultivó tanto la narrativa, en forma de novela y cuento, como la poesía y la crítica. Su amplia obra ha merecido múltiples galardones, entre los que destacan el National Book Award, el American Book Award y numerosos premios Hugo, Nebula, Jupiter y Locus.Ella misma se describía como una persona «feminista, conservacionista, ecologista, norteamericana, apasionadamente comprometida con la literatura, paisaje y vida de la Costa Oeste».