Mad Dogs and Englishmen

"The British Empire covered nearly one quarter of the globe when Edward VII took the throne in 1901. Much of this territory was newly acquired and barely explored... Out in the Noonday Sun is a n affectionate and ironic portrait of those Edwardian adventurers who set out for the tropics when the Imperial sun was at its zenith -- only to find that sometimes the heat was too much for them. Drawing from letters, diaries, and memoirs of the period, Pakenham brings us the lives of these remarkable men and women who passed their days-- flamboyantly, desperately, and at times degeneratively -- with little company but the mongoose and a stiff cup of tea..."

• Out in the Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropics - Valerie Pakenham

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