Waugh abroad : collected travel writing / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.

Series:

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Everyman's library ; 266

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, English.

British--Foreign countries.

British.

Voyages and travels.

Physical Description:

xli, 1064 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.

Summary:

For the first time in one volume--30 years' worth of Waugh's inimitable travel writings. Spanning the years from 1929 to 1958, these accounts describe his journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist's sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh essentially invented the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned. The result is a feast of literary adventures--as light, bright, sharp, and invigorating as Waugh's fiction.

Contents:

Labels

Remote people

Ninety-two days

Waugh in Abyssinia

Robbery under law

The holy places

A tourist in Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxvii).

ISBN:

1400040760

OCLC:

52288791