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A Merry Dance Around the World by Eric Newby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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. Covering everything from the birth of Eric Newby in 1919 at the 'ghastly hour' of 3.45am, to Herculean cycling escapades in his seventies through the wiles of ...Show more
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature)
The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountain surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow-covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.' Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked a friend to accompany ...Show more
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
A classic of travel writing, 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for ...Show more
A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. But this fulfilment would ...Show more
Departures and Arrivals by Eric Newby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'Whatever else we remember of our travels, we remember our departures and arrivals. Often they are the most enduring of all our memories of them.' From one of Britain's best-loved travel writers comes a fascinating collection of incredible highlights from an eventful life. Acutely observant, with an e ...Show more
Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice. To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby had decided that the depths of winter would be the very best time to ...Show more
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