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by Evelyn Waugh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (3 Jan 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140095187
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140095180
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 352,076 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 15 Dec 2007
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
What a great book. Evelyn Waugh is more famous for books like Brideshead Revisited and A Handful of Dust, both of which are fairly tragic. He also wrote satirical, dark comedies like Scoop and The Loved One. This is a non-fiction book in which he attempts the travel genre, with in my view, stunning success. He ambles about using a cruise ship to transport him wherever his whims take him, commenting upon some of the usual sights you would expect, but also taking in local peculiarities, and more importantly people watching.
He has a wonderful turn of phrase and a delightfully irreverent approach to his commentary, he often addresses the reader directly, which makes for a much more conversational, intimate journey for the reader. He takes in the delights of France,Greece, Italy, Egypt and Algeria to name but a few. His dialogue about discovering the works of Gaudi in Barcelona is particularly charming and enthusiastic and his juxtaposition of the serious and silly works beautifully.
This is a book of its time, and in this way reminded me very much of the travel books of Lawrence Durrell which I also loved. It is worth reading, not because you will ever be able to retrace his steps, but precisely because you won't, and you are able to enter into a unique series of snapshots of a bygone era. Delightful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, 30 May 2008
This review is from: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
Like all Waugh's prose this book is entertaining and elegant, with effortless one-liners peppering the text. It is not a great book, and not Waugh's best. But if the aim of a travel book is to stimulate interest in the places the author has visited, then this book does succeed in that. Obviously all the people he wrote about are long dead and the world he describes is gone too. Nevertheless, it does stimulate the appetite for travel and gives a different slant as Waugh seemed to be more interested in the people he saw and met than the famous sites.

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