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The salmon of doubt

Douglas Adams, (1952-2001,)

Stephen Fry, (1957-)

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The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boy's first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans can't make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.

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Title Statement The salmon of doubt / Douglas Adams ; foreword by Stephen Fry.
Author Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001
Additional Contributors Fry, Stephen,1957-
Publication London: Pan Books,2021.©2002
Extent of Item xxxv, 278 pages ;
ISBN 9781529034608 (trade paperback)
Other Number pr06206144
General Notes Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2002.
Summary The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boy's first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans can't make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.
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By Topic Novelists, English--Fiction--20th century
By Name Adams, Douglas,1952-2001
By Genre Humorous fiction
Science fiction
Short stories
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