Waugh, Evelyn

8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ("Jim [?] | with best wishes from | Evelyn") on the front free endpaper, frontispiece and 6 photographic plates, 2 folding maps, original maroon cloth, DUST-JACKET, collector's morocco backed folding box, dust-jacket with some repairs to head and foot of spine

WAUGH'S SECOND TRAVEL BOOK. In the autumn of 1930 Waugh travelled to Ethiopia to witness the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie. Although he had been commissioned by The Graphic to write three articles in the course of the trip, most of the journey was at his own expense, and he continued from Addis Ababa to the interior of Ethiopia before visiting his cousin in Yemen, then headed back to Zanzibar, Kenya, the Belgian Congo, and South Africa. The entire trip cost less than £500.

After returning to England in early March, Waugh then used his diaries from the trip to write Remote People, which he intended to call "They Were Still Dancing" - the opening words of the book. It later appeared in the US under this title.