When the narrator's rented car breaks down in the English countryside, the book summons thoughts of Elizabeth Hurley and observes, "You don't get to be the face of Estée Lauder by being the kind of idiot who relies on Hertz for important transportation".
Ilya travelled by truck around the Ohio countryside selling books and manuscripts.
Glaeser talks about cities as historical centers of publishing: Gutenberg couldn't have created his large and expensive press without financial backers and assistants to help build and operate it (i.e., he couldn't have built it alone in a barn in the countryside); and books are more easily sold where, of course, there are people to buy them.
When her head gets caught up in a chase for perfection she tries to head to the countryside, read books, cook food and go for big walks – basically, "do anything except stress out about this thing that only I really care about.
Even with a self-imposed gap as a novelist, she has produced a respectable stream of stories, novels, books about the countryside and children's books.
Picture-book countryside; honey-stone villages; charming pubs – what's not to love about the Cotswolds?
It was not a wholly happy experience and the frequent loving descriptions of the countryside in her books suggest why.
Ma added: "When I travelled through the Chinese countryside while researching the book I've just finished, almost every friend I stayed with along my route was later questioned by the police".
I also want to see what difference the big military exercises are making, and then to spend the weekend in the countryside working on a book I am writing.I fly on Malev, the Hungarian airline, which is pretty bad: that's a consequence of my current bug-bear, state ownership of industries.
This standpoint flew in the face of much urban theory, which was beginning to play down this division because of the steady proliferation of urban sprawl into the countryside, and so the book did not prove as significant as his earlier study.
