Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
| Author | Simon Winchester |
|---|---|
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Travel literature |
| Publisher | Penguin (UK) |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 362 pp (second edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | 0141011890 |
| OCLC | 56458990 |
Outposts, Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire is a book by Simon Winchester. It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the British Empire and was first published in 1985 under the title The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire. It was reprinted in 2003 with a new foreword written to address the changing political climate and attitudes in relation to the British Empire, most importantly concerning the handover of Hong Kong to China and, more generally, the rise of globalism.
The book takes on an elegiac tone as Winchester searches hopefully for remnants of imperial order, and as such marks a distinct period during Margaret Thatcher's government when a resurgence of British patriotism was mismatched to its still-diminishing former empire. This is particularly evident in his chapter on the Falkland Islands, which Britain had just defended from an Argentine invasion in 1982.
In Outposts, Winchester travels to, or writes about, the following places.
British Indian Ocean Territory
Tristan da Cunha
Gibraltar
Ascension Island
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Hong Kong (handed to the People's Republic of China in 1997)
Bermuda
Turks and Caicos Islands
British Virgin Islands
Anguilla
Montserrat
Cayman Islands
Falkland Islands
Pitcairn Islands
See also
External links
- Outposts article, from which the above information was taken.