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Category Archives: A Tourist in Africa
Waugh in Kenya
A French language weblog is in the process of posting a longer article entitled “The Happy Valley: Des Blancs au Kenya [Whites in Kenya]”. This contains, in part 2, a brief chapter on Evelyn Waugh’s contribution to the subject. The … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Remote People
Tagged "Le Comte Lanza", Kenya
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Waugh Novels in a New “Trilogy”
In a paper posted on the website culturedvultures.com (described as “a community dedicated to helping writers of all experiences and backgrounds to have their work seen and read”), Huw Saunders proposes a new “trilogy” of books about Africa. Two of the books … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Tagged Africa, Frederick Forsyth, Huw Saunders, The Dogs of War
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Travelers’ Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was well known as a travel writer and two foreign newspapers have cited his work in their recent travel columns. In the Kenyan newspaper, Daily Nation, columnist John Fox pulled out an old, unread copy of Waugh’s last … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Daily Nation, Die Welt, Kenya
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A Norwegian Review of Waugh’s Career
The latest issue of Agenda Magasin (a Norwegian language journal) includes an extended esaay on the career of Evelyn Waugh and his literary legacy in Norway. This is by Ivar Dale and is written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading
Tourist in Africa as Prophecy
A blogger has posted on the internet his 27-page article on Waugh’s final (and much neglected) travel book Tourist in Africa. This is Dr. Robert Hickson who sees in Waugh’s descriptions of 1959 East Africa (particularly those of Tanganyika and … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Articles
Tagged catholicism.org, Dr. Robert Hickson, East Africa
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Helena on List of Recommended Historical Novels
A bookblog (mirabile dictu) has published its list of the 10 best literary and pop novels set in the ancient world. Waugh’s Helena makes the list at No. 6: Evelyn Waugh’s Helena (1950). Said to be the favorite of his books, … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Helena
Tagged Historical Novels, Terry Teachout
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Waugh and the Winter Break
One of the bloggers on the New Criterion magazine became so depressed by the New York weather he looked for books describing adventures in warmer climes: With that in mind, I’ve been reading Evelyn Waugh’s riotous A Tourist in Africa, which … Continue reading
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Tagged The New Criterion, winter breaks
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Travel-Writing Geezers
Yesterday’s South China Morning Post reviews a collection of travel writing by those over 60: To Oldly Go. The reviewer separates the writers into those who find travel wonderful, those who take themselves too seriously and those “who have gradually become world-weary, curmudgeonly … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People, When the Going Was Good
Tagged South China Morning Post, To Oldly Go, Travel Writing
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Memoir of EWS’s Honorary President Published
David Lodge, the Society’s Honorary President, has written the first volume of his memoirs. This was published in the UK this week under the title Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-1975. An international edition is promised … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh Society, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Robbery Under Law, Television Programs
Tagged D.J.Taylor, David Lodge, Financial Times, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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