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The Englishman Abroad

By Hugh Massingham

The Englishman Abroad

By Hugh Massingham

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In this book the authors have produced a portrait of the Englishman overseas "in all his improbability" as seen through the eyes of a hundred and eight authors,. "The myth (started by Cyril Connolly) is that the English love travel." The subject is explored through all times in various lands and with many voices. Some flavour of this rich plum pudding can be gathered from such headings scattered throughout the book as, "The First Whiff", "Tealess Lands", "Garlic", "Gibbon's Meeting with Voltaire", "The March of the Bugs", "A Dirty, Scrubby Place", "A Small Taste of Holland", "Turkish Bath", "Albanian Robbers", "A Meal in the West Indies", "Weird Australia", "Ferocious Women", "A Ford in "Turkestan", "The Chilly Wind of Change", "Dylan Thomas in Persia". It begins with "Opening Steps", moves on to "The Grand Tour" (somewhat enlarged) and "The Middle Distance", and concludes with such "Wide Horizons" as may be found in America and Tibet, or Australia and the Middle East. What the reader will take away from this book is a sensation of painless travel and lively, vicarious adventure which jogs the memory, revives sunny pleasures and acknowledges man's infinite variousness.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1984-06-28
Publication Date:
1984-06-28
Publisher:
Sutton Publishing Ltd
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0862991439
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