Elaine Bunting's blog
Web log entry dated 12 March 2008
Precious cargo
We get a lot of review copies of books in our office but never before have we received one with such a scandalous surfeit of packaging as this.
As you can see, the contents arrived as carefully packaged as a donor organ, swaddled in plastic and nestled on a cardboard insert within a large box. The precious cargo is a hardback book illustrating the history of the America's Cup with paintings.
Presumably publishers David & Charles thought it too important for a mere jiffy bag.
Elaine Bunting
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