Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

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 in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton under the title Outposts and in the United States by Prentice Hall as 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.

Outposts: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire
First edition
AuthorSimon Winchester
LanguageEnglish
GenreTravel literature
PublisherHodder & Stoughton (UK)
Publication date
1985
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
Pages362 pp (second edition, paperback)
ISBN0141011890
OCLC56458990

Publication history

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  • Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire (1985), Hodder & Stoughton[1]
  • The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire (1985), Prentice Hall[2]
  • Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire revised ed. (2003), Penguin[3]

References

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  1. ^ Outposts: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire. OCLC. OCLC 319774185. Retrieved 22 November 2017 – via worldcat.org.
  2. ^ The sun never sets : travels to the remaining outposts of the British Empire. OCLC. OCLC 13092999. Retrieved 22 November 2017 – via worldcat.org.
  3. ^ Outposts : journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire. OCLC. OCLC 56458990. Retrieved 22 November 2017 – via worldcat.org.