Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

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	Print
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 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.

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.

Publication history

• 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]

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