''Outposts: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire'' is a book by

Simon Winchester Simon Winchester (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at ''The Guardian'' newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has ...

. It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the

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and was first published in 1985 in Britain by

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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

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to China and, more generally, the rise of globalism.

Publication history

*''Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire'' (1985), Hodder & Stoughton *''The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire'' (1985), Prentice Hall *''Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire'' revised ed. (2003), Penguin

References

Books by Simon Winchester British Overseas Territories 1985 non-fiction books British travel books Books about the British Empire Books about foreign relations of the United Kingdom English non-fiction books {{travel-book-stub