Around the World in Eighty Years [SIGNED]

Eric Newby

ISBN 10: 0002572230 / ISBN 13: 9780002572231

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, London, 2000

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Dust jacket: Very slight crease to top edge of front cover. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Black cloth binding. A few very light marks to text but otherwise a nice clean example. Signed by the author to card pasted to the title page. . Overall book condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £20.50; Oceania £30.00; Rest of World £25.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 10.75 x 9.5 inches (27 x 25 cm). Seller Inventory # 1199E074

Bibliographic Details

Title: Around the World in Eighty Years [SIGNED]

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, London

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardback. Printed pages: 175

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul's School. He began his travelling career in a perambulator commuting between Hammersmith Bridge and such seaside resorts as Frinton. In 1938 he persuaded his father to have him apprenticed to the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu and, with camera in tow, sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia to Europe by way of Cape Horn - the beginning of a lifelong passion for both travel and photography. During the war Newby served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Service and was awarded the Military Cross. It was as a prisoner of war in Italy that he first met Wanda, his beloved wife and travelling companion of many years. Following the War he spent ten years as a commercial traveller and in a London couture house before resuming his travelling career when he decided to take "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush". Whatever else he was doing, he has always travelled on a grand scale, whether under his own steam or as Travel Editor of the "Observer". Over the years he has mined the richly comic seam of his varied experiences to produce many popular travel classics, such as "Slowly Down the Ganges", "Love and War in the Apennines", "A Traveller's Life", "A Small Place in Italy" and "A Merry Dance Around the World". In all of his adventures his camera has never been far from his side, and the 250 photographs reproduced in this volume represent some of his finest work. Newby's accompanying recollections are full of his trademark self-deprecating humour and highly observant sense of the incongruous.

About the Author:

Eric Newby was born in London in 1919 and educated at St Paul's School. During the Second World War he served in the Black Watch and Special Boat Service and was a prisoner of war from 1942-5. For many years he was travel editor of the Observer. He is the author of many travel books.