Book description
A REVISED AND UPDATED EBOOK EDITION WITH ALL NEW READERS' DODOS!
We've all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever
pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects.
Until now, that is.
Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions,
cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction.
Some of them have vanished already.
Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle
deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that
no longer exist, white dog poo…
…all these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and
sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane. 'Chummy 1970s and 80s
nostalgia' GUARDIAN
'Best toilet book I've read in a while' BEN HATCH, author of ARE WE
NEARLY THERE YET?
'A very funny collection of things that have gone out of fashion' JEN
CAMPBELL, author of WEIRD THINGS CUSTOMERS SAY IN BOOKSHOPS Steve
Stack is the pseudonym of a well-known blogger and journalist. He has,
under various names, written for The Times, Observer, Private Eye and
The Guardian.
