The Book of Idle Pleasures
Tom Hodgkinson author Dan Kieran author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Published:1st May '08
£16.99
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The Cloudspotter's Guide meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of the simple things in life
The Book of Idle Pleasures is a restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and hassled.
The Book of Idle Pleasures is a restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and hassled. An antidote to our non-stop culture, it is a welcome compendium of timeless delights.
The book lists and reflects on 75 simple pastimes and proves that the best things in life really are free: lighting fires, skimming stones, catching falling leaves, whittling, staring out of the window, dreaming, doodling or taking a nap. The Book of Idle Pleasures is a celebration of pleasure for its own sake in a world of consumer overload.
At its best, the book has a delightful tone of foppish grandeur, achieving without much fuss a kind of phenomenological intensity in entries such as "Walking Back Home Drunk" or "Poking the Fire". Remember, too, that most things are improved with "a cup of smouldering tea", on which note I must leave you, as the kettle has just boiled * Guardian *
ISBN: 9780091923327
Dimensions: 204mm x 135mm x 24mm
Weight: 300g
224 pages