Remote People - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014009542X ISBN 13: 9780140095425

Publisher: Penguin, 1985

Synopsis

Physical description: 183 pages. Contents: Ethiopian Empire -- First nightmare -- British Empire -- Second nightmare -- Third nightmare. Subjects: Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966 Travel Africa. Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966 Travel Yemen (Republic) Aden. Ethiopia Description and travel. Arabian Peninsula Description and travel. Genre: Biography.

About this title

About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014009542X
• ISBN 13: 9780140095425
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192