The Englishmans Handbook, Idries Shah
The Englishmans Handbook, Idries Shah
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The Englishman's Handbook

Author: Idries Shah

Narrator: David Ault

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: IDF Publishing

Published: 02/13/2021


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Toni

'There are other major hazards throughout the country which make it unlikely that you will ever get where you are trying to go, as Penelope Stokes noted: The first task is to ascertain that you are, in fact, in the correct village. True British perversity has dotted the countryside with near-homonymo......more

Goodreads review by Ita

The third book in Shah's trilogy on the English is in my opinion the best. Published in 2000, it still has great relevance. If you are familiar with current affairs, you will have no difficulty finding examples of delaying tactics, group think, muddling through, double think and double speak. In 200......more

Goodreads review by Aubrey

The Englishman’s Handbook is the final volume of Idries Shah’s best-selling trilogy portraying that strangest of tribes, The English. Loaded with hilarious tales, it reveals the hidden strategies and qualities that help the English deal with foreigners and tips off foreigners on how to cope with the......more

Goodreads review by Gerry

Book 3 of an entertaining trilogy. Not to be missed by those interested in English culture at a very insightful and humorous level. Reminds me of the very humor of "3 Men and a Dog".......more

Goodreads review by Dan

Idries Shah’s amusing look at the British goes beyond the putative subject of this entertaining and instructive book.......more