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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A traveller's life
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World Atlas of Exploration
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Something Wholesale
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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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A Book of Traveller's Tales
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Eric Newly, Eric Newby (Editor)
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Something wholesale : my life and times in the rag trade
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Lonely Planet a Small Place in Italy
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When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away
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What the traveller saw
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In an extraordinary union of writing and photography, Newby presents the unexpected, the serious, and the curious from around the world. Black-and-white photographs throughout.
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A merry dance around the world : the best of Eric Newby.
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Lonely Planet Love and War in the Apennines
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Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice on the Last of the Windjammers
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With wit and nostalgia--and through radiant photographs that evoke a vanished maritime world--a master storyteller looks back on a youthful adventure that taught him the ways of the sea and ships. 160 photos.
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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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Great Ascents
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