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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 Italy and through wildest New York. His book chronicles the whole range of situations into which he has thrown himself with characteristic verve and optimism, and his perception of the incongruous is as sharp when travelling abroad in search of high fashion, as buyer to a chain of department stores, as it is when recalling his reluctant participation in a tiger shoot in India.
‘In order to belong to the inner circle of free-range travellers you have to be willing to choose the hard and hazardous bits – and this is where Eric Newby is so outstandingly good’ – Punch
‘Whatever his may be he allows us to accompany him vicariously on it... and his book is a delight to read’ Auberon Waugh
‘Everything Eric Newby has written is a joy. This compendium is a treat’ Geoffrey Moorhouse
‘Eric Newby’s admirers will not be disappointed’ Listener
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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.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0330280309
- ISBN 13 9780330280303
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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