William Golding – An Egyptian Journal – 1985

William Golding, best-known for writing The Lord of the Flies, spent a month on a boat travelling along the Nile to Upper Egypt in the mid-1980s. This witty account is the end result of his encounter with Egypt and the Egyptians, and the author’s first non-fiction work.

‘One of the funniest anti-travel books I have ever read.’ Daily Telegraph

First edition of the UK paperback, published by Faber and Faber in 1985. In very good condition.