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This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textualvariants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence.A Tourist in Africa was Evelyn Waugh's final travel book, and one of his most interesting. Restless and intolerant of the English winter, Waugh boards the Pendennis Castle for East Africa by way of Italy and Suez, going on to retrace the routes of journeys he took as a much younger man throughKenya, Tanganyika, the Rhodesias, and other East African countries. He embarks on his trip at the very moment when many of these countries are beginning to assert their independence after decades of British rule. As he travels, Waugh contemplates the changing face of an Africa he has knownintimately as well as his own increasingly awkward fit in the modern world. Even as he contends with his own encroaching age and the unwelcome changes to international travel, his usual zest for adventure and discovery asserts itself at every turn. A much better sailor than flyer, Waugh laments theimpending eclipse of sea travel as well as the declining appetite for danger and daring he witnesses in some of his companions. This edition provides hundreds of contextual notes to illuminate the historical, cultural, and biographical details of most interest to readers of Waugh, travel writing,and African history; a complete textual history which traces every change made to the text from Waugh's first drafts to the first published British and American editions; new and original illustrations; and a thorough but eminently readable introduction by Patrick R. Query. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Oh that he took a longer trip and more time. Oh too, that he shared more details of his pleasant and “not too arduous” journey. Now it is too late for us to learn more, those countries are – as he knew and saw them – gone.
Often considered arrogant and a snob, Waugh was a thorough conservative well aware of the system of class divisions and secure in his standing in them. Philip Larkin, in a review for The Guardian critiqued Waugh's elitism; "to receive a letter from him, it seems one would have to have a nursery nickname and be a member of White's". But there was a strong core of honor and courage in his character that is apparent in his treatment of his characters, his self-mockery and his wit. His writing is stylish and clear.
Evelyn enjoyed this trip very much but is said to have “despised" the book and it was in fact, his last travel narrative, a genre at which I feel he excelled. I enjoyed this book very much and was sad to finish it so quickly…Cyril Connolly, a friend that Waugh loved to tease, in a review called it ”the thinnest piece of book-making that Mr. Waugh has undertaken".
But, unlike me, it was not the physical size or length he was criticizing!