Remote People
(Sprache: Englisch)
Starting off in Ethiopia, then ranging further across the continent, Waugh captures the joys, woes and eccentricities of travel in foreign lands
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Starting off in Ethiopia, then ranging further across the continent, Waugh captures the joys, woes and eccentricities of travel in foreign lands
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Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times. It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa, where natives rub shoulders with eccentric expatriates, settlers with Arab traders and dignitaries with monks. Interspersed with these colourful tales are three 'nightmares' which describe the vexations of travel, including returning home.
Autoren-Porträt von Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published 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). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Evelyn Waugh
- 2002, 304 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141186399
- ISBN-13: 9780141186399
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2010
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Englisch
Pressezitat
An outrageously disdainful, wonderfully funny account ... he wrote like an angel - a fallen one Irish Times
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