A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland Contributor(s): Aitken, Ben (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785786261 ISBN-13: 9781785786266 Publisher: Icon Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2020 * Out of Print * |
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BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - Eastern - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: 914.384 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.6 lbs) 306 pages |
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Publisher Description: Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament. Travel writer Ben Aitken moved to Poland in 2016 to understand why the Poles were leaving. He booked the cheapest flight he could find, to a place he had never heard of - Poznan. This candid, funny and offbeat book is the account of his year in Poland, as an unlikely immigrant. Between peeling potatoes and boning fish, Ben spent time on the road travelling the country. He missed the bus to Auschwitz; stayed with a dozen nuns near Krakow; was offered a job by a Eurosceptic farmer and went to Gdansk to learn how Solidarity rose and communism fell. This is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country, challenging stereotypes that Poland is a grey, ex-soviet land, and revealing a diverse country, rightfully proud of its colorful identity. |
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