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First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: V Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Golding shares his intimate, entertaining and often humorous day-to-day account of this journey made through Egypt shortly after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Book is illustrated with many colour and b/w photographs, most taken by the author. 207 pp. plus Illustration.

Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.

As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.