Hot Countries: A Travel Book

by: Alec Waugh (Author)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader

Publication Date: 2013/8/14

Language: English

Print Length: 260 pages

ISBN-10: 1448200091

ISBN-13: 9781448200092

Book Description

First published in 1930, 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 joueys 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.

About the Author

First published in 1930, 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 joueys 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.