A Tourist in Africa
Author(s): 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. 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.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.238
- : 01 October 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Evelyn Waugh
- : Hardback
- : 916.76043
- : 176
More About The Product
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).
