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.A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Books)

by: Eric Newby

December 04, 1981
From the pathetically inadequate preparations to the cooking of Eric Newby`s watch to the meeting with Thesiger...One absurd incident follows another as the two brave and foolish climbers fail to achieve their declared aim. It is such a funny book, every page is a joy. It is the kind of book you hope will never end. Sadly it does. Nothing to do but read it again...but, alas, I lent my copy to someone, and then it went out of print.
Luckily I managed to find a replacement in a second hand book shop.
So glad its in print again,now I can lend my copy without risk of being unable to replace it if it strays..
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.Love and War in the Apennines (Picador Books)

by: Eric Newby

May 10, 1996
A tender and enormously inspiring little book about his experiences in Italy during World War 2, this is Eric Newby reflecting on his loss of innocence, twenty-eight years after the event. Newby would leave soldiering behind and go on to become a first-rate travel writer, a man capable of portraying passion, excitement and mystery in a calmly sophisticated prose style. In "Love and War in the Apennines" we get a mature account of his Italian exploits rather than a contemporary journal or diary.

Newby makes no apologies for transforming his memories into a seemingly seamless narrative. He delivers an enriching and thrilling account of his experiences: life is experienced as a continuum, not as edited highlights, and life in the ... Read More:
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.The Last Grain Race (Picador Books)

by: Eric Newby

December 01, 1995
Eric Newby is a renowned travel writer, and this is one of his first and best books. It tells of how in 1938 he signed on as an apprentice deck hand on a large steel square rigger engaged in the Australia - Europe grain trade. It is a fascinating, moving, exciting, funny account of the round trip with all its highs and lows, written with such skill, and passion I just couldn't put it down. You really don't have to be a sailor to enjoy this book,nut if you are it's even better. A collector's item.
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.A Small Place in Italy

by: Eric Newby

June 09, 1995
The urge to escape the comforts, routine and refinements of our living conditions to somewhere more challenging, primitive and raw is something that many of us feel - especially those who read books. The books we read can sometimes stimulate the urge, sometimes satisfy it. All I ask of such books is that the author can write well and that he is not boastful.

Eric Newby, especially in "A Small Place in Italy", meets these requirements admirably. Indeed, he ranks for me as a travel writer of near genius. He was almost 50 years old when he and his Italian born wife Wanda took up permanent residence in a ruined farmhouse in northern Italy. His account of the trials and tribulations that followed, the neighbours and the locality, is ... Read More:
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.Slowly Down the Ganges (Picador Books)

by: Eric Newby

January 14, 1983
Unlike his grounded colleague, the river traveller can indulge his bent for distraction only so far. His route is more or less fixed; certainly his destination is final. And so it is to Eric Newby's credit for eliciting from this journey 300 pages worth of erudite and witty observances, for it is essentially a procession of waterborne shuttles, one ghat to the next, punctuated only by the occasional onshore foray, the function of which mostly being to secure boat and crew for the succeeding leg. I suspect, though, that Newby could glean 300 pages from a dinghy ride in a swimming pool, and that that too would be immensely readable.

The archetypical harrassed traveller, at every turn events conspire to defeat or, at the least, humiliate ... Read More:
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.On the Shores of the Mediterranean (Picador Books)

by: Eric Newby

August 09, 1985
Eric Newby is a serious travel essayist for serious travelers. A consummate pro. ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, originally published in 1984, is his chronicle of a resolute journey around the circumference of the Mediterranean, an arduous tour of ancient cities, ruins and near ruins that would have surely daunted a lesser man. Beginning at his home in Tuscany, he shepherds the reader along to Naples, Venice, Montenegro, Albania, Mt. Olympus (in Greece), Istanbul, Turkey's Mediterranean shore (the Troad), Jerusalem, the Pyramids, Tobruk (in Libya), Tunisia, Fez (in Morocco), Gibraltar, Seville (in Spain), and Nice (on the Côte d' Azur). After 484 pages (in paperback) of relatively small print, I collapsed exhausted.

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.Something Wholesale (Picador Books)

by: Eric Newby

June 07, 1985
Genuinelyhilarious memoir of the writer's time in the rag trade after the war and an afectionate portrait of his father - an unsual man of his times. Strongly reccomended.
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.A Book of Travellers' Tales (Picador Books)

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October 10, 1986
Wow!!! The author produces a miraculous yet unselfish work. He has catalogued the work of hundreds of other authors(Queen Victoria and Joshua Slocum amoung them) to lay out in a titillating fashion a feast for the erudite and worldly reader to enjoy. The book is broken up primarily geographically and secondarily chronologically over a 2,000 year period. It is comprised of brief essays, one to four pages in length, combining to form a 600 page compendium. A fantastic work.
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.A Merry Dance Around the World: The Best of Eric Newby

by: Eric Newby

October 11, 1996
Wow!!! The author produces a miraculous yet unselfish work. He has catalogued the work of hundreds of other authors(Queen Victoria and Joshua Slocum amoung them) to lay out in a titillating fashion a feast for the erudite and worldly reader to enjoy. The book is broken up primarily geographically and secondarily chronologically over a 2,000 year period. It is comprised of brief essays, one to four pages in length, combining to form a 600 page compendium. A fantastic work.
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.Round Ireland in Low Gear (Picador Books)

by: Eric Newby

November 04, 1988
For anyone who has or has dreamed of cycling in Ireland, this is the book for you. It shows that you don't have to be super fit; if two OAPs can do it so can you. The book gives a good flavour of the Irish people, its landscape and history before the Celtic Tiger was unleashed. If you've ever thought about cyling in Ireland, go now before it's too late, because very soon it will be just like everywhere else! If you can't or wont cycle, sit in your armchair and live it through the adventures of Eric and Wanda Newby who made the trip in the 1980's.
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