Ninety-Two Days (7)

''Who in his sense 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 entertaining 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 nightm...