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Slowly Down the Ganges
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Newby's tribute to the richness of life along the Ganges River was written after a 1200-mile trip he made in 1961 with his wife, Wanda.
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Round Ireland in low gear
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A spur of the moment decision brings Eric Newby and his wife Wanda to traverse the roads of Ireland by bicycle--beginning in December. This account of their months on two wheels is full of local lore, personal encounters, and vivid description.
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The Big Red Train Ride
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Written before the fall of communism, Newby's travelogue exposes the bureaucracy and bad food behind an eight-day journey on the trans-Siberian railroad.
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On the shores of the Mediterranean
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A humorous account of the travels of Eric Newby and his wife Wanda, round the Mediterranean littoral starting from Naples onwards. Last published in 1985.
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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This frank and funny account of an ill-prepared Himalayan expedition, taking the reader from London to the wilds of Afghanistan, is one of the classics of travel writing.
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Love & War in the Apennines
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Newby's harrowing tale of his escape from a prison camp during World War II emphasizes the almost incredible risk-taking and kindness of the Italians who helped him cross the mountains. During the course of his journey, he also met the indomitable Wanda, the woman who would become his wife.
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A Book of travellers' tales
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In his choice of selections, Newby gives full due to the classic travel writers, but he also shows a wonderful gift for hunting out fascinating, illuminating pieces by obscure or unexpected people. An indispensable companion for armchair travellers.
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The last grain race
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Newby tells the story of his 1938 journey on the Moshulu--now a restaurant--the last sailing ship to complete a cargo voyage from Europe to Australia. The journey is recounted with Newby's famed eye for detail and for the nuances of both people and place.
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Something wholesale : my life and times in the rag trade
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An overview of the adventures of Eric Newby during his time as a commercial traveller working in the world of haute couture for the family firm of Lane and Newby, from his repatriation as a prisoner-of-war in 1945 until he embarked on his walk in the Hindu Kush in 1956. Last published in 1985.
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Small place in Italy
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Long before the avalanche of trendy 1990s books about fixing up an old palazzo in Tuscany, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda did that very thing--back in the 1960s--and Newby writes about it in this unpretentious, humorous, and sympathetic chronicle.
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Lonely Planet a Small Place in Italy
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Long before the avalanche of trendy 1990s books about fixing up an old palazzo in Tuscany, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda did that very thing--back in the 1960s--and Newby writes about it in this unpretentious, humorous, and sympathetic chronicle.
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When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away
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Departures & Arrivals
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English travel writer, Eric Newby, recalls the finer moments of his decades of traveling the globe, punctuating them with ruminations on house and home in England.
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Lonely Planet a Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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After a crash course in mountaineering, Newby goes from fashion-house toady to climber of Mir Samir (19,880'), a mountain in the Hindu Kush region of northeast Afghanistan. This droll recital of his experiences, along with his equally inexperienced friend Hugh, has become a classic of travel literature.
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What the traveller saw
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This book is a collection of travel essays by a distinguished travel writer. Other books by Eric Newby include "The Last Grain Race", "Slowly Down the Ganges", "Love and War in the Appennines" and "On the Shores of the Mediterranean".
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A Book of Traveller's Tales
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Eric Newly, Eric Newby (Editor)
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A traveller's life
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Eric Newby's life of travel began with strange adventures in prams, forays into the lush jungles of Harrods with his mother and into the perilous slums of darkest Hammersmith on his way to school. Such beginnings aroused his curiosity about more outlandish places, a wanderlust satisfied equally by travels through the London sewers, by bicycle to ...
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Lonely Planet Love and War in the Apennines
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Newby's harrowing tale of his escape from a prison camp during World War II emphasizes the almost incredible risk-taking and kindness of the Italians who helped him cross the mountains.
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Great ascents : a narrative history of mountaineering
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A Book of Lands and Peoples
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An anthology of travel-writing through the ages from a well-loved travel writer. In 1985 Eric Newby compiled an anthology of travel-writing called "Travellers Tales", The enthusiasm and love for the subject he displayed shone out on every page. This volume aims to replicate the critical and commercial success of this and contains the same ...
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World Atlas of Exploration
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Great Ascents
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Lonely Planet on the Shores of the Mediterranean
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Eric Newby covers extensive ground as he visits the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with his wife Wanda. From Morocco to Turkey and France to Libya they discover the things "that we had never seen before or had not seen for so long that we both wanted to see them again and to discover...what changes time had wrought in them."
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Lonely Planet Round Ireland in Low Gear
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A spur of the moment decision brings Eric Newby and his wife Wanda to traverse the roads of Ireland by bicycle--beginning in December. This account of their months on two wheels is full of local lore, personal encounters, and vivid description.
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The Rand McNally world atlas of exploration
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