Eric Newby Bücher

Mitte der 50er Jahre brechen zwei exzentrische Briten – der eine Verkäufer in einem Haute-Couture-Salon, der andere Diplomat im Dienste Ihrer Majestät – auf, um ein Abenteuer der ganz besonderen Art zu erleben. Nach einem Crash-Kurs im Bergsteigen (in den Hügeln von Wales) wollen sie im Inneren Afghanistans einen Sechstausender bezwingen. Voller Selbstironie und zugleich höchst kenntnisreich schildert Eric Newby die Erlebnisse der beiden Dandys in diesem gottverlassenen Winkel der Welt. Sein Bericht, ein Klassiker der angelsächsischen Reiseliteratur, hat bis heute nichts von seinem Charme – und seiner Aktualität – eingebüßt.

An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last `grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.

Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', `Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II.

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.

A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, `A Merry Dance around the World' is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure.

Whatever else he was doing, Eric Newby has always travelled on a grand scale, whether under his own steam or as Travel Editor of the "Observer". 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

This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby's travels all over the globe - and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds. One of the funniest and most entertaining of all travel writers, Eric Newby has been wandering the by-ways of the world for over half a century. Admired for his exceptional powers of observation, Newby's genius is also to capture the unexpected, the curious and the absurd on camera. Since his very first journey in 1938, Newby's quest for the unknown and the unusual has been insatiable. Whether on a dangerous canoe trip down the Wakwayowkastic River, with the pastoral people in the mountainous north of Spain, or visiting the exotic archipelago of Fiji, nothing escapes his eye for unlikely or amusing detail. A rare combination of travel writing and photography, What the Traveller Saw is an exhilarating record of Newby's humourous adventures over the years.