In 1967 Eric and Wanda Newby fulfilled a long-cherished dream when they bought a run-down farmhouse in northern Tuscany, in the foothills of the Italian Alps. They were the first foreigners to live in the region. A Small Place in Italy describes how the house was restored with the help of their neighbors, a colorful east of characters who quickly befriended the Newbys.With his characteristic wry humor and sharp eye for the quirks of human nature, Eric Newby paints an unforgettable picture of rural Italy and its people. The rhythms and rituals of country life - harvesting grapes, making wine, hunting for wild mushrooms - are lovingly evoked, along with the storybook landscapes and changing seasons. At the center of his memoir is the farmhouse itself, which from unpromising beginnings - tileless roof, long-abandoned septic tank and mice the size of small cats - was gradually restored.

A Small Place in Italy

ERIC NEWBY

Harpercollins

Eric Newby tells of his time spent in Italy after the 1943 armistice. He describes the kindness of the peasants and the beauty of the landscape. It is here that he also met the girl who was to become his wife.

Love and War in the Apennines

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

Travel

Asia

HarperCollins Audio

EVELYN WAUGH

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, Ltd

A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH (PICADOR BOOKS)

A short walk in the Hindu Kush

Harvill Press

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".

What the Traveller Saw

Flamingo/ HarperCollins

A Book of Lands and Peoples

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 which each entry had been chosen and described. Newby's enthusiasm and love for the subject shone out on every page, and the book became a travel-writing classic. Now, nearly 20 years later, Newby returns with a collection even more far-ranging and delightfully entertaining. A virtually endless treasure-trove of the bizarre, the touching, the profound and the farcical, A Book of Lands and Peoples is a collection of staggering scope and range. From Herodotus to Wilfred Thesiger, from Christopher Columbus to Paul Theroux, from Nick Danziger to Marco Polo, Eric Newby has brought together the absolute cream of the travel-writing crop into one beautiful and fascinating volume. There is simply no other book like it.

Harperperennial

Eric Newby is well-known for his travel writing. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable trade of women's fashion. 'Something Wholesale' is Newby's hilarious and chaotic tale of the disorder that was his life as an apprentice at Lane and Newby.

Something Wholesale

Harper Press

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A Small Place in Italy

Love and War in the Apennines

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

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

A short walk in the Hindu Kush

What the Traveller Saw

A Book of Lands and Peoples

A Book of Lands and Peoples

Something Wholesale