REPORT FROM PRACTICALLY NOWHERE

by John Sack ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 4, 1959

The author describes his book as ""an account of thirteen no-account countries"". This is the result of a trip which he began during the summer of 1955 when he started a world tour to see the usual things and places and which he abandoned in favor of an excursion in minutiae. The itinerary? Lundy, a Channel island, 12 miles from England inhabited by ""untold thousands of rabbits and birds "", whose residents insist that they are independent of England; Sark, the only feudal state surviving in Europe, governed by a Mrs. Sibyl Hathaway; Andorra, situated between Spain and France in the Pyrenees, supposedly created by Charlemagne; Lichtenstein, a principality whose royalty prefer to live in Vienna; Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, the smallest country in the world, located in downtown Rome; and inevitably, Monaco. The result of all this? An engaging bit of froth best ministered in small doses. Several of these pieces first appeared in Playboy, Harper's and Holiday.

Pub Date: March 4, 1959

ISBN: 0595089186

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION