From the Publisher

A personable account of a two-year wander around the world in the early 1960s, when the author was in his early twenties and not long out of Eton. All the qualities I have come to admire in Williams’s later writing are here — his sophisticated innocence, his charming sense of the absurd, the casual intensity of his poet’s eye. It is this last which makes the book a mosaic of brilliant glimpses, whether Williams is riding across the deserts of the Middle East, idling for weeks on a houseboat in Kashmir, or dealing with the “evil eye” on a mail packet in the PaciTc. A jaunty, thoroughly winning traveler’s tale.

About Author

Hugo Williams was born in Windsor in 1942, grew up in Sussex,and now lives in north London. He has published eight volumes of poetry: Symptoms of Loss (1965); Sugar Daddy (1970); Some Sweet Day (1975); Love-life (1979); Writing Home (1985); Selected Poems (1989); Self-Portrait with a Slide (1990); and Dock Leaves (1995). In addition to All the Time in the World , which was originally published in 1966, his other books include a travel narrative entitled No Particular Place to Go (1981), and Freelancing (1995) a collection of columns written for the Times Literary Supplement .