Hot Countries: A Travel Book - Softcover

Waugh, Alec

 
9781448200092: Hot Countries: A Travel Book
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1448200091 ISBN 13: 9781448200092
Verlag: Bloomsbury Reader, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Bloomsbury Reader
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1448200091
ISBN 13 
9781448200092
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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