Britannia in Brief: The Scoop on All Things British
- ISBN-10
- 0345509994
- ISBN-13
- 9780345509994
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Authors
- Leslie Banker, William Mullins
Description
For travelers and anglophile alike, includes everything vital to British culture from what your choice of newspaper says about you to why you shouldn't call anyone mate unless you've served on a boat with him, all in a clever, entertaining and thoroughly useful guide. Original.
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