Publisher's Synopsis
This volume of selections from Evelyn Waugh's early travel writings comprises "all that I wish to preserve of the four travel books I wrote between the years 1929 and 1935". It includes accounts of a Mediterranean pleasure cruise, of the coronation of the Emperor Haile Selassie in Abyssinia in 1930 and of the Italian invasion five years later, of visits to Aden and Brazil.;These early accounts of journeys made to remote places at a time when Waugh "had no fixed home and no possessions which would not conveniently go on a porter's barrow" reveal the merciless eye and sharp wit which were to characterize his novels - "Decline and Fall", "Scoop", "A Handful of Dust" and "Brideshead Revisited".
