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    <![CDATA[How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No traveler to date has matched the intrepid 19th-century gentleman for his bravery, derring-do, and ability to make a perfect cup of tea in the most malarial of climes. But the sun has set on the golden age of exploration, and the records of these fearless, mustachioed adventurers have vanished from the shelves. In their place have appeared timorous travel guides written by authors who could hardly locate Rhodesia on a classroom globe let alone comment on the proper etiquette of an Italian duel.<br/>Now, with the publication of Vic Darkwood&#8217;s <em>How to Make Friends and Oppress People, </em>at long last today's aspiring adventurers can avail themselves of the best of classic travel advice on such invaluable topics as:<br/>-Using Anthills as Ovens<br/>-Hunting Elephants and Hippos with a Javelin<br/>-Sleeping on a Billiard Table as a Means of Avoiding Vermin <br/>-Digging a Well with a Pointy Stick<br/>Fully illustrated with over 150 drawings and woodcuts, this inestimable collection of wisdom drawn from actual 19th- and early 20th-century guidebooks will prove essential to any traveler looking to enjoy his excursion abroad or hoping to avoid death at the hands of inhospitable natives. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Chap Manifesto]]>
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    <![CDATA[From The Sacraments of Grooming to The Semiotics of Smoking&#8212;the startling manifesto of &#8220;The Tweed Revolution.&#8221;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Martinis]]>
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    <![CDATA[This title is a spoof of the Jules Verne classic and a &quot;Rough Guide to the World&quot; for &quot;Chaps&quot; everywhere. On a wet November evening, in the refined surroundings of the Sheridan Club on London's St James's Street, Messrs Temple and Darkwood entered into a wager: Is it possible to travel the entire world, crossing all five continents, using a different method of transport for every leg of the journey? This is the story of their remarkable attempt. It is an adventure that takes the &quot;Chaps&quot; into territory previously unchartered by gentlemen, such as three-star hotels and standard class railway carriages, and involves some of the more curious forms of travel, including balloon, yak, elephant, Kon-Tiki raft and a sperm whale. Along the way they have to negotiate the unpalatable cuisine of North America; cross the entire Congo jungle in a sedan chair; and resort to selling their internal organs after a disastrous night spent at a seedy casino in Bangkok. Their journey is eased by the indispensable &quot;Trubshawe's Handbook for the Gentleman Traveller&quot; and by Ahmed, their quick witted Moroccan boyservant, who can always be relied upon to locate the nearest opium den or baccarat table.  Principally though, it is an adventure fuelled by dry Martinis - the only food stuff that Messrs Temple and Darkwood feel they can trust at every corner of the globe.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Chap Almanac: An Esoterick Yearbook for the Decadent Gentleman]]>
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    <![CDATA[From the authors of &quot;The Chap Manifesto&quot; comes a yearbook for the sleek of trouser and loose of moral. Sartorius, Epicurus, Libido ...these are the signs of the Chap zodiac. If the manifesto was a call to arms - gentlemen of the world unite, you have exquisite manners to maintain! - then the almanac is a practical guide on how to uphold these standards through the year. In the tradition of &quot;Old Moore's Almanac&quot;, this title is packed full of handy hits for chaps everywhere, from &quot;Do It Yossouf: How to Get your Moroccan Manservant to Do your DIY&quot; to &quot;How to Keep your Skin Pale&quot; whilst on summer holiday. Each month is accompanied by a &quot;Chapist&quot; sign of the zodiac including; Libido (February), &quot;The Fellow who Devotes the Entire Month to Lascivious Pursuits&quot;; and Antiquarius (October), &quot;The Collector of Dusty Tomes who Settles Down to a Winter of Literary Pursuits&quot;.  Elsewhere, Gustav Temple, Vic Darkwood and their team of writers guide us through the potentially tricky dates of the year, such as March 16th, the anniversary of the first FA Cup Final of 1872, with advice on &quot;How to Deflect Conversations About Football&quot;, as well as dates to take advantage of, including February 29th, &quot;How to Encourage a Lady to Propose to You During a Leap Year&quot;.]]>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">6393910</id>
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    <![CDATA[The Lost Art of Travel: A Handbook for the Modern Adventurer]]>
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    <![CDATA['Do not dread an occasional night in the open when you are benighted and have no camp. There are few beds more comfortable than a dry ditch in England in June' Frank Tatchell, Vicar of Midhurst, 1923  'Every lady should, to my mind, know how to use a revolver. She may at any time be in China or some other country where there are savage natives' Walter Winans, 1904  Fully illustrated with over 150 drawings and woodcuts, &quot;The Lost Art of Travel&quot; is a hilarious antidote to the depressingly anodyne and hectic modern era of travel writing. Featuring chapters on Clothing, Food, Accommodation, Modes of Conveyance, Personal Defence and Holiday Pursuits, among others, it is sure to instil in all who read it a wanderlust satiated only by prising oneself from one's armchair, gathering up portmanteau and umbrella, donning a favourite tweed hunting jacket and setting off on a sterling voyage of discovery.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Best of the &quot;Chap&quot;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Whatever happened to the English gentleman? The Chap is the long-running magazine with a mission to revive gentlemanly behaviour and sartorial elegance. From the beauty of a tweed jacket to the simple pleasure derived from smoking a pipe, the renaissance of dandyism is celebrated here in the finest articles selected from The Chap, with all the panache one would expect from the splendid fellows behind The Chap Manifesto and The Chap Almanac. From the Philosophy of Grooming to the Semiotics of Eyewear, from Stephen Frys thoughts on being made Pipe Smoker of the Year to the abiding horror of the ready-to-wear suit, The Best of the Chap is for all those who prefer a trilby to a baseball cap. So sink into your deepest armchair, pour yourself a gin and tonic, fire up your briar, and prepare to join the sophisticated world of The Chap.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
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        <name><![CDATA[Vic Darkwood]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.38</average_rating>
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