A Tourist in Africa - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749301376 ISBN 13: 9780749301378

Publisher: Mandarin, 1989

Synopsis

The diary of Evelyn Waugh's travels across Central Africa in 1958, an idiosyncratic portrait of life and customs in Kenya, Rhodesia and Tanganynika at a key moment in the transition between colonialism and self-rule.

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Mandarin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0749301376
• ISBN 13: 9780749301378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160