Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between The Wars | Paul Fussell

 

‘I am assuming that travel is now impossible and that tourism is all that we have left.’ An elegy for the lost art of travel, Paul Fussell’s Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars is a celebration of the British writers who memorialised the years between the two world wars as the last great age of travel: D.H. Lawrence, Grahame Greene, Norman Douglas, Evelyn Waugh, and Robert Byron.

‘An absolutely dazzling continent of sociology, literary criticism, cultural history, biography and amusing anecdote, so borderlessly fused that we hardly realize what great intellectual distances we are covering.’ – The New York Times