Hot Countries (The Armchair Traveller Series)

By Alec Waugh

Book Overview

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 journeys in the Far... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557782091
• ISBN13: 9781557782090
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Paragon House
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Contents:

The author tells of places he's been and things he's seen. He describes being at sea, in Tahiti, La Martinique, Siam, Ceylon, the Tropics, New Hebrides, Black Republic and back to London.This book was originally published in 1930 so his descriptions of what was then may not be as is now.