Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Outposts, Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire  
Author(s) Simon Winchester
Country England
Language English
Genre(s) Travel literature
Publisher Penguin (UK)
Publication date 1985
Media type Print
Pages 362 pp (second edition, paperback)
ISBN 0-14-1011890
OCLC Number 56458990

Outposts, Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire (ISBN 0141011890) 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. 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.

The book takes on an elegaic 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.

In Outposts, Winchester travels to, or writes about, the following places.

 British Indian Ocean Territory
 Tristan da Cunha
 Gibraltar
 Ascension Island
 Saint Helena
 Hong Kong (handed over to the People's Republic of China in 1997)
 Bermuda
 Turks and Caicos Islands
 British Virgin Islands
 Anguilla
 Montserrat
 Cayman Islands
 Falkland Islands
 Pitcairn Islands

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