Category Archives: Ninety-Two Days

Waugh in Brazil and in National Review

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Milan newspaper Il Foglio carries an article in Italian by Marco Archetti about Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 travel book Ninety-Two Days. After a quote from the book and some biographical background, Archetti explains the trip to Brazil: One cannot know … Continue reading →

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News from Waugh Conference

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The weblog of the Huntington Library (Verso) has posted an article by Barbara Cooke, Research Associate of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project, and Chip Long, Chairman of the Evelyn Waugh Society, relating to the conference on Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh, Travel Writer

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Several recent articles remind us of Waugh’s pre-eminence as a travel writer in the 1930s, a time when foreign travel was still something exotic. The adventure travel magazine Avaunt has added Waugh’s Ninety-Two Days (1934) to its reading list: This account of … Continue reading →

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Travel Guide to Guyana’s “Waugh Country” Launched

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Guyana Chronicle has announced the launch of a tourist guide to the Rupununi region of southern Guyana: …the North Rupununi was an extraordinary natural area in southern Guyana that for the last 30 years had been isolated from the … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Writing Cited for Guyana Anniversary

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The current issue of Caribbean Beat (the inflight journal of Caribbean Airlines) carries a story about the five areas of touristic interest in Guyana. This is part of a promotional effort in connection with this year’s 50th anniversary of Guyana’s … Continue reading →

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Travel-Writing Geezers

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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Huntington Library acquires major Waugh collection

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

The Huntington Library in San Marino, California (12 miles west of Los Angeles) has announced the acquisition of a major collection of rare editions and manuscripts of Evelyn Waugh. The collection, consisting of some 250 books and 135 letters and … Continue reading →

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