Away from It All: A Escapologist’s Notebook

Collections
1319939
Title
Away from It All: A Escapologist’s Notebook
Year/Period
1924
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Object size: 24.0 x 16.5 x 4.0 cm
Accession No.
2014-00061
Credit Line
Gift of CapitaLand Limited (Singapore), from the Raffles Hotel Museum Collection

Away from it all is written by Cedric Belfrage, an English journalist, film critic and writer. Published in 1937, it chronicles his travels around the glove from Spain to Singapore to the South Seas Islands. He describes travel as his opiate to escape from the world he was familiar with.