A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the dark streets of Barnes and the chaotic jungles of Harrods, and progressed to solo, school-bound adventures around the slums of darkest Hammersmith. His interest piqued, Newby's wanderlust snowballed, and his adventures multiplied, as he navigated the London sewer system, bicycled to Italy and meandered the wilds of New York's Broadway. Whether travelling abroad as a high-fashion buyer for a British department store or for pure adventure as a travel writer, even when reluctantly participating in a tiger shoot in India, Newby chronicles his adventures with verve, humour and infectious enthusiasm. After nine years as the travel editor for the Observer, Newby reluctantly gave up the post, eschewing the new form of human-as-freight travel. However, this change was certainly no pity for his readers, as the latter-day Newby continued on his unwavering quest for fascinating detail and adventure wherever he roamed, whether on two feet or two wheels. 'A Traveller's Life' chronicles the incredible adventures of one of the best-loved tour guides in the history of travel writing.

A traveller's life

Travel

NEWBY, Eric

Travel Writing

Collins

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

Preface by Evelyn Waugh

Asia

What the Traveller Saw

A Small Place in Italy

A small place in Italy

Europe

Harpercollins

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On the shores of the Mediterranean

Harvill Press

Featuring Henry James on the Epsom Derby, Cecil Beaton on an evening with the Rolling Stones in Marrakesh, and Hannibal on crossing the Alps, this anthology offers more than three hundred travel pieces dating from 430 B.C. to the 1980s

A book of travellers' tales

, xii, 308 pages, which includes a 6 page index, SIGNED by Eric Newby, and from his library, dedicated 'For Dearest Venetia with all our love Eric and Beck 17th October 1987', also with some of his page notes on half title page

Round Ireland in Low Gear

Here, in this selection of the best of Eric Newby's published writings, we learn how to clean out a pigsty in a gale near Cape Horn; what it is like to row 1200 miles down the Ganges, or live behind German lines in occupied Italy; how to brave dress buyers in post-war Edinburgh and in the wilds of Mayfair; deal with terrifying conductresses on the Trans-Siberian Railway; and cycle round Ireland in what was optimistically described as summertime - it actually rained for five months.

A merry dance around the world: The best of Eric Newby

Biographies & Memoirs

HarperCollins, Publishers

An autobiography by the author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.  Eric Newby recounts his life, from his earliest childhood adventures in darkest Barnes, to an elephant fair in India; from the faded glamour of days and nights on the Orient Express, to a troglodytic settlement of opal miners in Australia where even armed men have disappeared.

DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS

A collection of travel essays by a distinguished travel writer. Other books by Eric Newby include "The Last Grain Race", "Slowly Down the Ganges", "Love and War in the Appennines" and "On the Shores of the Mediterranean".

Flamingo/ HarperCollins

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A traveller's life

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

What the Traveller Saw

A small place in Italy

On the shores of the Mediterranean

A book of travellers' tales

Round Ireland in Low Gear

A merry dance around the world: The best of Eric Newby

DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS

What the Traveller Saw