Ninety-Two Days, a journey in Guiana and Brazil

Waugh Evelyn

Published by Penguin Books

`Who in his senses will read, still less buy, a travel book of no scientific value about a place he has no intention of visiting?'

Waugh provides the answer to his own question in this quite unputdownable chronicle of a South American journey. In it, he describes the isolated
cattle country of Guiana, sparsely populated by a bizarre collection of visionaries, rogues and ranchers, and records his nightmarish experiences
travelling on foot, by horse and by boat through the jungle into Brazil

With characteristic honesty Evelyn Waugh debunks the romantic notions attached to rough travelling his trip is difficult, dangerous and extremely uncomfortable – and his acute and witty observations in this marvellous travelogue give his
reader 'a share in the experience of travel'.