Thirty years' worth of Evelyn Waugh's inimitable travel writings have been gathered together fo the first time in one volume. Waugh's accounts of his travels--spanning the years from 1929 to 1958--describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelists's sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered 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. From his fresh take the well-traveled and hence alread "fully laveled" Mediterranean region in LabelsI, to a close-up view of Haile Selaissie's coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana in Niney-two Days, to a sharp-eyed tour of The Holy Places, the seven travel books collected here provide a feast of literary adventures--as light, bright, sharp, and invigorating as Waugh's fiction.
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Waugh Of The World:
"Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveler and not a tourist." (Labels, 1930) Throughout his first full decade as a novelist, Evelyn Waugh kept up a second career as a writer of travel books, getting double-duty from the locales he used to spruce up his fiction. "Waugh Abroad" collects the five travel books he wrote in the 1930s, as well as brief essay on holy places from 1952 and a last travel book published in 1960, six years before his... more info
What Waugh Saw...:
I purchased Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing : The Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh because I was looking for a copy of ROBBERY UNDER THE LAW by Waugh and that book was contained in this collection. Waugh's travel writing is informative and comical. He tells it as he sees it in that mid-20th century English style. There is a little bit of the "We've got an empire to look after" attitude in Waugh's travel writing. But, that is a small price to pay for Waugh's analysis of world events and how... more info
A Welcome Return:
All of Waugh's travel books have been out of print for years, with the exception of brief excerpts he included in an anthology called "When the Going Was Good." (Which is well worth reading if for nothing other than Waugh's caustic preface.) Even then one of his travelogues, "Robbery Under Law," was not excerpted at all. "Waugh Abroad" changes that, and God Bless Everyman's Library for bringing all these books back in print in their completeness. For Waugh used his travels as a source for much of his... more info
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