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  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141186399
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00
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Remote People





A hysterical account of Waugh's travels through Africa

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.

  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141186399
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead, London, in 1903. He studied History at Hertford College, Oxford, but left without a degree. After a brief period as a teacher, he published his first book, a biography of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in 1928. The same year also saw the publication of his first novel, Decline and Fall, which established his reputation. Further novels, including Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Brideshead Revisited (1945) were highly acclaimed. Waugh also wrote several travel books and short stories, and was a prolific journalist and book reviewer. Waugh died on Easter Sunday, 1966, at his home in Combe Florey, Somerset.

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Praise for Remote People

An outrageously disdainful, wonderfully funny account ... he wrote like an angel - a fallen one

Irish Times