A Small Place in Italy - Softcover

Newby-eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007367902 ISBN 13: 9780007367900

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

In 1967, travel writer Eric Newby and his wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. Full of Newby's sharp wit and good humour, 'A Small Place in Italy' returns, 20 years later, to the life of Newby's much-cherished classic, 'Love and War in the Apennines'.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Newby was born in London in 1919. In 1938, he joined the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu as an apprentice and sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia to Europe, by way of Cape Horn. During World War II, he served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Section. In 1942, he was captured and remained a prisoner-of-war until 1945. He subsequently married the girl who helped him to escape, and for the next fifty years, his wife Wanda was at his side on many adventures. After the war, he worked in the fashion business and book publishing but always travelled on a grand scale, sometimes as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made CBE in 1994 and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2001. Eric Newby died in 2006.

From AudioFile:

As usual, Andrew Sachs gives a stellar performance in narrating this account of renovating a dilapidated farmhouse on the border of Tuscany. He rolls out nonstop Italian phrases and descriptions of local festivals as if he'd been raised under an olive tree. But, alas, even the liveliest narration cannot transform 25 years in "I Castagni" with Eric Newby into one year in Provence with Peter Mayle. Although Newby is a highly respected travel writer, he lacks Mayle's flair for capturing colorful characters and lively dialogue. With such uninspired writing, few listeners may be tempted--even in imagination--to follow the rough road to "a small place in Italy." J.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0007367902
• ISBN 13: 9780007367900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240