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A Tourist in Africa (21) Evelyn Waugh

A Tourist in Africa (21) By Evelyn Waugh

A Tourist in Africa (21) by Evelyn Waugh


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Summary

Captures a portrait of Africa and the Levant as it was emerging from the shadow of WW II and into the post-colonial order. The author reports on Port Said, Aden, Kenya, Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Bechuanaland and South Africa. He was no defender of the established order, but nor did he succumb to hype, either.

A Tourist in Africa (21) Summary

A Tourist in Africa (21) by Evelyn Waugh

The last tranche of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order. In this brilliant travel diary Evelyn Waugh captures a portrait of Africa and the Levant as it was emerging from the shadow of WW II and into the post- colonial order. He reports on Port Said, Aden, Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Bechuanaland and South Africa. Waugh was no defender of the established order, but nor did he succumb to hype, either. He knew the emergers were going to get something far different from what they expected.

About Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox. Other famous works include his Sword of Honour trilogy, and Brideshead Revisited (1945).

Additional information

GOR009172111
9780141193649
0141193646
A Tourist in Africa (21) by Evelyn Waugh
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
2011-12-01
176
N/A
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