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ROOMS WITH A VIEW
THE SECRET LIFE OF GREAT HOTELS |
| By: |
Adrian Mourby |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1785782754 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781785782756 |
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| Publisher: |
ICON BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
2 November, 2017 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Incredible, startling and often hilarious tales from the world's best hotels |
| Synopsis: |
Salvador Dali once asked room service at Hotel Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were duly brought to his room he got out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira, and the details of India's independence were worked out in the ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Delhi. The great hotels have provided glamorous backgrounds for some of the most momentous - and most bizarre - events of world history. Adrian Mourby is a distinguished hotel historian and travel journalist - and a lover of great hotels. Here he tells the stories of 50 of the world's most magnificent, among them the Adlon in Berlin, the Cipriani in Venice, the Intercontinental in Saigon, Raffles in Singapore, the Dorchester in London, Hotel Kamp in Helsinki, the Pera Palace in Istanbul - and, a personal favourite, the Art Deco Midland in Morecambe Bay. All human life is to be found in a great hotel, only in a more entertaining form. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Icon Books Ltd |
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Returnable |
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