Ultimate Signspotting: Absurd & Amusing Signs from Around the World by Doug Lans.

Ultimate Signspotting

by Doug Lansky, Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet's original Signspotting books garnered phenomenal worldwide sales of over 300,000 copies. And now the world of gaffes and miscommunications is back with Ultimate Signspotting, a round-up of the world's most perplexing signs and garbled messages. With over 100 hilarious photographs, getting lost in translation has never been more fun.

Paperback

English

Very good

Publisher Description

Lonely Planet's original Signspotting books garnered phenomenal worldwide sales of over 300,000 copies. And now the world of gaffes and miscommunications is back with Ultimate Signspotting, a round-up of the world's most perplexing signs and garbled messages. Over 100 of the most hilarious photographs have been selected, and are now given accompanying illustrations. Getting lost in translation has never been more fun.

Notes

Over 1,000 hilarious photographs of signs from around the world, with brand new accompanying illustrations adding to the humour and a new clean and fresh design.

Author Biography

Doug Lansky, a writer and a traveler, has chronicled his travels around the world in his hilarious and vividly descriptive column, "The Vagabond." His travels have included cruising up the Amazon on a cargo ship, living and blowgun hunting with Jaguar Indians in Peru, buying a horse and riding it to Colombia, hitchhiking through Syria and Jordan, where he befriended sergeants in the Iraqi military, riding a camel across the desert in India, and sailing down the Nile. Doug's articles have appeared in "Spy" and "Might" magazines as well as in numerous major U.S. daily newspapers. He is also the

Details

ISBN

1743604629

YEAR

2014

ISBN-10

1743604629

ISBN-13

9781743604625

MEDIA

Book

PUBLISHER

Lonely Planet Publications Ltd

IMPRINT

Lonely Planet Publications

PLACE OF PUBLICATION

Hawthorn, Victoria

COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION

Australia

DEWEY

910.2

PAGES

160

AUTHOR

Lonely Planet

SHORT TITLE

ULTIMATE SIGNSPOTTING

SERIES

General Pictorial

LANGUAGE

English

RESIDENCE

MN, US

SUBTITLE

Absurd & Amusing Signs from Around the World

PUBLICATION DATE

2014-10-17

FORMAT

Paperback

ILLUSTRATIONS

No

AUDIENCE

General/Trade

UK RELEASE DATE

2014-10-01

AU RELEASE DATE

2014-10-01

NZ RELEASE DATE

2014-10-01