| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-714940-9 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0007149407 |
| No of pages | 620 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Published Date | 18 Oct 2004 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-714940-9 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0007149407 |
| No of pages | 620 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Published Date | 18 Oct 2004 |
George Eric Newby CBE MC (December 6, 1919 – October 20, 2006) was an English author of travel literature.
Newby was born and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London, and was educated at St Paul's School. His father was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers but he also harboured dreams of escape, running away to sea as a child before being captured at Millwall. Owing to his father's frequent financial crises and his own failure to pass algebra, Newby was taken away from school at sixteen and put to work as an office boy in the Dorland advertising agency on Regent Street, where he spent most of his time cycling around the office admiring the typists' legs.
Fortunately, the agency lost the Kellogg's account and he apprenticed aboard the Finnish windjammer Moshulu in 1938, sailing in what Newby entitled The Last Grain Race (1956) from Europe to Australia and back by way of Cape Horn (his journey was also pictorially documented in Learning the Ropes). In fact, two more grain races followed the 1939 race in which Newby participated, with the last race being held in 1949.
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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 ‘Travelers 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 twenty 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 Theiler, 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.