Description
A selection of Evelyn Waugh’s sharpest travel writing from 1929 to 1935, this collection gathers five long excerpts from the travel books he wrote during those years. With his customary wit and keen eye for human folly, Waugh moves from a Mediterranean cruise to a journey by train through Djibouti toward Abyssinia, turning unfamiliar landscapes into stages for observation and comedy. Across these travels, he explores the friction between expectation and reality, the rituals of travel and tourism, and the subtle social codes that govern life on the move. For readers who enjoy elegantly styled prose and perceptive, lightly satirical storytelling, these pages offer the pleasure of seeing the world refracted through one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive voices.
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paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
Published Sep 27, 1990
304 pages
ISBN: 9780140182538
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Details
First Published
1930
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh.