Waugh in Abyssinia

by Evelyn Waugh

Book Overview

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible--they swear by it. But few readers are acquainted with Waugh's memoir of his stint as a London Daily Mail correspondent in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) during the Italian invasion in the 1930s. Waugh in Abyssinia is an entertaining account by a cantankerous and unenthusiastic war reporter that "provides a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132519
• ISBN13: 9780807132517
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"