# Remote People

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- Book: [Remote People](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/remote-people) ([Remote People.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/remote-people.md))
- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-639-9
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2018-11-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times . It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa, where natives rub shoulders with eccentric expatriates, settlers with Arab traders and dignitaries with monks. Interspersed with these colourful tales are three 'nightmares' which describe the vexations of travel, including returning home.