Englishman's Handbook
Published on 10. October 2020
294 pages
978-1-78479-200-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Englishman's Handbook is the third book in Idries Shah's best-selling trilogy on why the English are as strange as they are. He examines the 'baffling phenomena of the British and Britishness', presenting a manual of handy tips on how to muddle through while visiting English shores.An illuminating and often hilarious read, the book is just as valuable to the British as it is to foreigners.It contains all sorts of extraordinary information on how to confuse foreigners with sheer Englishness, if any do manage to break through the barriers.
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Content
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- 1. The Questions They Ask
- 2. Aversion Therapy
- 3. The French
- 4. The Spanish
- 5. The Americans
- 6. The Lights - and the Dogs!
- 7. Masterly Inactivity
- 8. Teapoys and Boiled Potatoes
- 9. Say It Loud Enough and They Won't Believe It
- 10. Travelling, Visiting, Empiring
- 11. Not a Person, But
- 12. Culture at a Distance
- 13. Dealing With Foreigners I: Disinformation
- 14. Dealing With Foreigners II:
- 15. Joining the Third World
- 16. Contrary to Expectation
- 17. Mr Thomas's Fruit
- 18. Doublethink or Doublespeak?
- 19. The Foreignness of Foreigners
- 20. How Horrid IS Abroad?
- 21. Loathsome or Lovable?
- 22. Can Foreigners Deal With the British?
- 23. Life in Britain
- 24. Alarm and Despondency
- 25. Secret Meanings, Hidden Hands.
- A Request
- About Idries Shah
- Also by Idries Shah
- Notes
