The English only have half (and wholly) killed themselves in order to get away from England

My edition of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Travel Classics – a collection oddly more modern-oriented than the name suggests, to me at least) includes a charming preface by Evelyn Waugh that is fortunately short enough to quote in full: Mr Eric Newby must not be confused with the other English writer … Continue reading The English only have half (and wholly) killed themselves in order to…