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Synopsis
This discursive and absorbing travel-book offers, as the author says in his new Foreword, ‘a picture of a way of living that exists no longer.' Hot Countries tells of a series of journeys in the Far East, the West Indies and the South Sea Islands when he was a young and light-hearted novelist seeking colour, romance and adventure.
Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a British novelist born in London and educated at Sherborne Public School, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public school life that caused some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian Society. Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the settings for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to make the cocktail party a regular feature of 1920s social life.
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1930. With woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Hot Countries is more than a travel book. It is also an intriguing historical document, a record of the places portrayed and an impression of the attitudes of the time. Readers will find it an informative and pleasantly substantial narrative.
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- PublisherKessinger Publishing Co
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1417943491
- ISBN 13 9781417943494
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages316
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