books by Eric Newby     books:       A Small Place in Italy (Travel Literature)8 reviews Eric Newby Lonely Planet, 2008 I learned, laughed, cried, couldn't put it down In 1967, British travel editor Eric Newby and his wife, Wanda, bought a primitive farmhouse in the hills between Liguria and Tuscany, the region where they met during World War II, Newby a soldier on the run between POW internments, Wanda a relief worker. They are the first foreigners to come live in their neighborhood, which remained unchanged from the time of the War; in fact, the country ...             Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers Eric Newby John Murray Publishers, 1999 From the perspective of 60 years on Eric Newby looks back with characteristic humour to his young self and his days on board 'Moshulu' and pays tribute, with his photographs, to these magnificent ships and their crews. No one with a love of the sea or a sense of the past could fail to be moved and excited by them.             The Last Grain Race (Travel Literature)9 reviews Eric Newby Lonely Planet, 2008 Exciting sailing adventure In 1938 Eric Newby was eighteen years old. He left a dead end job with an advertising agency in London and signed as an apprentice seaman on the four-masted sailing ship Moshulu for a trip to bring back a shipload of grain from Australia. Moshulu was one of a dozen sailing ships still engaged in the grain trade and the 1938 trip was destined to be the last of the merchant sailing era. Newby is ...             Slowly Down the Ganges6 reviews Eric Newby Lonely Planet, 1998 Travel writing as it should be This frequently hilarious account of the author's boat trip down the Ganges River has it all: bureaucracy, a prickly spousal travelling companion, bizarre Hindu cultists, and dry streambeds loaded with basketball-sized rocks. Oh yes, there is also the heartland of classical India's Hindu culture unrolling along the shore, with the author's slightly quaint but extremely well-informed interest in ...             Round Ireland in Low Gear10 reviews Eric Newby Lonely Planet, 1998 Wry Literary Treatment, Not a Light Travelogue Those who have given this work low scores are doing it a serious injustice. It is definitely not an example of perky, predictably upbeat travel writing, but is instead a thoughtful, moody, highly literate and contemplative treatment of a deliberately oddball adventure -- to bicycle through Ireland, at the age of 66, in the chill of winter. It may be that those who have rated this work ...             Something Wholesale: My Life in the Rag Trade2 reviews Eric Newby Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2001 Great story This is Eric Newby's best book, even better than his travel books. On the surface, it is a book about working in his family's wholesale clothing firm, but it is really an ode to his father. The preface, in which he conveys the reader through a presumed chronology of his dad's life by describing family photos, is a classic. The characterizations of the people who work at the firm, and the buyers ...             A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Travel Literature)34 reviews Eric Newby Lonely Planet, 2008 A Pleasant Waking Companion Self-educated as a writer, Eric Newby has produced a number of books falling in the category, "Travel." They are really essays, light commentaries on the human condition in unfamiliar surroundings. His first, "The Last Great Grain Race," concerned sailing as an eighteen year old, unskilled member of the crew of a four-masted sailing "freighter" on the last grain race of such a ship from ...             Love & War in the Apennines (Travel Literature)11 reviews Eric Newby Lonely Planet, 2008 Extraordinary During World War II, the rural citizens of northern Italy vowed to assist Allied soldiers on the run in their mountainous region. They were operating on an informed heart, on the Golden Rule, wanting to give aid to those who opposed the hated Fascists and Nazis as they would hope someone would help their own sons. And while the Allies were protected by the Geneva Convention should they be ...             Departures & Arrivals1 review Eric Newby The Lyons Press, 2002 An excellent armchair read In Departures And Arrivals, British writer Newby and world traveller Eric newby describes his latest travel adventures with a gift for irony and description: here his experiences in Calabria, with canal travels, and in Beijing capture the vivid peoples and personalities he encounters. An excellent armchair read.             A Book of Traveller's Tales3 reviews Penguin (Non-Classics), 1987 Great travel anthology!!! Eric Newby has here given us a wonderful travel anthology, great introductions to lots of writers/works. The entries are arranged by geographical region, and are chronological within each region, with representative entries from antiquity to modern times. Very highly recommend this anthology! My sister recently gave my Dad a copy, and he called to tell me about one entry, and that sparked my ...             On the Shores of the Mediterranean1 review Eric Newby Lonely Planet, 1998 On the road to ruins with Eric and Wanda Eric Newby is a serious travel essayist for serious travelers. A consummate pro. ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, originally published in 1984, is his chronicle of a resolute journey around the circumference of the Mediterranean, an arduous tour of ancient cities, ruins and near ruins that would have surely daunted a lesser man. Beginning at his home in Tuscany, he shepherds the reader ...             A Book of Lands and Peoples Eric Newby HarperPerennial, 2004 A sparkling anthology of several centuries worth of the world's best travel writing, assembled by the legendary Eric Newby, the author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines, and one of Britain's pre-eminent and best-loved travel-writers. In 1985 Eric Newby compiled an immensely successful anthology of travel-writing called Travellers Tales that was distinguished by its originality and the genuine affection with ...             When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away1 review Eric Newby Pocket, 1984 The Hills provide Resistance Eric Newby's WWII experience,"When the snow comes..." is an extraordinary treat. Not only do you take in his thrills and spills of his war-time prison escape and romance, but all the sights and smells of the locale, which is the first of its kind to tell of the widespread resistance of the Italian people of the mountain tops. The humanity and compassion of the Italian peasants is unforgettable, ...             William Hoare of Bath (Biography, Letters & Diaries) Eric Newby Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1991             Around the World in 80 Years Eric Newby HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2000 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 ...             The big Red train ride3 reviews Eric Newby Akadine Press, 1999 One of the funniest travel writers ever... This was my first Eric Newby book, and I was hooked. Newby and wife Wanda travel throughout the Soviet Union searching hopefully (and often in vain) for a decent meal, a warm blanket, and helpful railroad staff. They never really succeed, but the journey they bring us along on is worth the trouble. It's just plain funny. Newby doesn't lob jokes at the reader, but tosses them off underhand for ...              search for books apennines, apprentice, around, arrivals, biography, departures, diaries, ganges, grain, hoare, ireland, italy, lands, learning, letters, literature, mediterranean, peoples, place, shores, slowly, something, train, travel, traveller, wholesale, william, windjammers, world, years books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen outdoor living: Gilmour Multi-Purpose Sprayer 2 Gallon Capacity 201P White home  impressum - about us