Ninety-Two Days (7)

Evelyn Waugh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2011
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-119360-1 (ISBN)

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Chronicles a South American journey. This title describes the isolated cattle country of Guiana, sparsely populated by a bizarre collection of visionaries, rogues and ranchers, and records nightmarish experiences traveling on foot, by horse and by boat through the jungle into Brazil.

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design.

'Who in his sense will read, still less buy, a travel book of no scientific value about a place he has no intention of visiting?'. Waugh provides the answer to his own question in this entertaining chronicle of a South American journey. In it, he describes the isolated cattle country of Guiana, sparsely populated by a bizarre collection of visionaries, rogues and ranchers, and records his nightmarish experiences traveling on foot, by horse and by boat through the jungle into Brazil. He debunks the romantic notions attached to rough traveling - his trip is difficult, dangerous and extremely uncomfortable - and his acute and witty observations in this marvelous travelogue give his reader 'a share in the experience of travel'.

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 and continued to write, winning many prestigious literary awards. Brideshead Revisited was first published in 1945. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.5.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 193 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Südamerika
ISBN-10	0-14-119360-3 / 0141193603
ISBN-13	978-0-14-119360-1 / 9780141193601
Zustand	Neuware