"'I believe I shall be writing home about this trip for the rest
of my life... years from now, still recollecting, like an old white
hunter, shadowy images to an empty fireplace, far into the
night...'"
"All the Time in the World," a first work of prose by the poet
Hugo Williams, was originally published in 1966 and commemorates
Williams' effort at age 21 to 'travel the world': the Middle East,
India, South-East Asia, Japan and Australia. Rich with striking and
vivid perceptions of people and places and perilous forms of
transport, the account also finds Williams acquiring precious
life-experience, even as the setting moves from the self-evident
'poem' of India's landscape to barren, petrified Northern
Australia. In Calcutta Williams looks up the great Satyajit Ray
through the telephone book. In Thailand he meets a girl at a
dance-hall, moves into her sunny flat, contemplates staying. But to
England he will return, albeit by the most unexpectedly arduous leg
of his amazing journey.
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