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Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief.
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Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. His first novel, Decline and Fall, was published in 1928 and it was soon followed by: Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). He travelled extensively, served in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards and continued to write, winning many prestigious literary awards. Brideshead Revisited was first published in 1945. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
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When the Going Was Good (Previously published in Labels; Ninety-Two Days; Remote People; Waugh in Abyssinia.)
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Penguin Classics 978-0-141-19363-2, London
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Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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[978-0-141-19363-2] 2011. (Hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 429pp. There is minor sticker residue on the front panel of the dust jacket. "The following pages comprise all that I wish to preserve of the four travel books I wrote between the years 1929 and 1935: Labels, Remote People, Ninety-Two Days and (a title not of my own choosing) Waugh in Abyssinia. These books have now been out of print for some time and will not be reissued" - from the Preface. Previously published in Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People & Waugh in Abyssinia. (Fiction, Travel, Travel Writing). Seller Inventory # 154807
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Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket is rubbed, with light marks on front cover, but text and images are clear and bright. Cover is bumped on bottom front edge. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 1146644
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