How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

Umberto Eco

Original title: Comment voyager avec un saumon

Also published as: How to travel with a salmon & other essays

earliest edition we have, 1992 Harcourt, Brace, 1994 248 pages

A Harvest book

How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody.". These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amt...

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Editions we hold

Come viaggiare con un salmone edition · 2016 · La nave di Teseo · 206 pages · 9788893440165
How to Travel with a Salmon edition · 2013 · Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9781448181995
Dai zhe gui yu qu lü xing edition · 2009 · Xin xing chu ban she · 272 pages · 9787802257528
Il secondo diario minimo edition · 2001 · Bompiani · 339 pages
How to Travel with a Salmon paperback · 2001 · Vintage · 228 pages · 9780099428633
Segundo Diario Minimo paperback · 2000 · Sites/Lumen Books · 9788426401045
Comment voyager avec un saumon. Nouveaux pastiches et postiches paperback · 2000 · LGF · 283 pages · 9782253147923
Comment voyager avec un saumon paperback · 1998 · Grasset · 270 pages · 9782246467113
Comment voyager avec un saumon edition · 1998 · Le Grand livre du mois · 270 pages · 9782702816301
Comment voyager avec un saumon edition · 1998 · France loisirs · 270 pages · 9782744120732
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays edition · 1995 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299898042
Segundo Diario Minimo paperback · 1995 · Lumen Books/Sites Books · 328 pages · 9788426412287

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