CRAP SOUVENIRS: The Ultimate Kitsch Collection

Santa Monica - for all your boating, fishing and McDonald's needs. What happens in the cornfield stays in the cornfield. Wake up with a Dutch prostitute. 3D coffee mug (boobs) or genuine kangaroo testicles, an Australian souvenir beer can opener! Just try to walk more than a few steps in any major city without some little trinket made in China screaming for your attention. Souvenirs have in fact been around in one form or another for nearly as long as humans have been travelling - paperweights, women's compacts, playing cards and of course the postcard, a subtle way of showing off, creating jealousy among friends and family stuck at home. Statue of Liberty hair comb? Humping camels? Union Jack underpants? And not forgetting papal souvenirs about as non-religious as you could ever imagine like the Pope's Cologne! Page after page of colour photos to make you smile and that's before you see the salt cellars on page 157 - resembling a certain protuberance. For those who appreciate the finer aspects of kitsch. 160 page softback, colour.