25,000
make-ups were given worldwide, transforming pretty women into the most
attractive on the planet, all from the interior of a London Routemaster bus!
This memoir, written by the driver Mic Connell chronicles the journey of the
Mary Quant Beauty Bus across Europe and the Americas, through mountain ranges,
deserts and at least one swamp.
Fifty years later, Mic Connell re-discovered the letters, press cuttings,
progress reports and his personal journals from that era. Surrounded by Beauty
is a fascinating historical record of those years on the road spreading the
influence of Mary Quant's revolutionary make-up brand.
Through literal and metaphorical highs and lows, Mic shines a light on all that
happened on a London bus far from home.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Grendon Underwood
Großbritannien
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-915657-59-6 (9781915657596)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Quincy, or
Mic as he was better known Mic was born and bred in London, spending his
youthful year's playing around in his fathers coach station where he learnt how
to drive buses at an incredible early age, sitting on his fathers knee.
Despite having an elder sister, he knew nothing of the fashion of the
day.
But buses? He knew all about buses!"
Contents
Stage 1 - Where it All Began. 1
Stage 2 - Italy. 7
Stage 3 - Greece. 32
Stage 4 - France. 47
Stage 5 - Spain. 91
Stage 6 - Portugal 108
Stage 7 - Paris. 119
Stage 8 - The Routemaster 125
Stage 9 - The Rockies & The Prairies. 139
Stage 10 - Ontario. 166
Stage 11 - Quebec. 188
Stage 12 - New York & Boston. 245
Stage 13 -
Venezuela. 276
Stage 14 - Andes. 334
Stage 15 - Epilogue. 388
