George Newby war ein englischer Autor von Reiseliteratur, bekannt für seinen abenteuerlichen Geist und seine tiefe Faszination für die Erkundung der Welt. Seine Schriften befassen sich oft mit Themen wie Flucht, dem Streben nach Freiheit und der rohen Schönheit entlegener Länder. Er verwandelte seine Erfahrungen auf Weltumsegelungen in fesselnde Erzählungen, die den Leser an Bord von Segelschiffen und in exotische Gefilde entführen. Newbys Stil ist direkt und lebendig, voller scharfer Beobachtungen aus dem täglichen Leben auf See und an Land.
Eric Newby beschreibt in "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" seine abenteuerliche Reise nach Afghanistan, wo er die Schönheit und Herausforderungen der Region erlebt. Der Autor, der zuvor in der britischen Modeindustrie arbeitete, liefert humorvolle Einblicke und lebendige Porträts seiner Begleiter. Das Buch verbindet historische Perspektiven mit persönlichen Erlebnissen und ist ein Meisterwerk der Reiseliteratur.
Im Frühjahr 1956 erhielt Eric Newby, der in einem Londoner Haute-Couture-Salon arbeitete, ein Telegramm aus Rio de Janeiro: „Kannst du im Juni nach Nuristan reisen?“ Absender war ein exzentrischer Freund im diplomatischen Dienst. Es war der perfekte Zeitpunkt für zwei Abenteurer, ins Innere Afghanistans vorzudringen, da die britische Armee das Land verlassen hatte und die Region noch unberührt von Touristen und Konflikten war. Ihr Ziel war ein Sechstausender im Hindukusch, obwohl sie keine Erfahrung im Bergsteigen hatten. Sie kämpften sich durch reißende Flüsse und eisige Pässe, litten unter Hunger, Dysenterie und Insektenstichen, und trotz der Widrigkeiten bewahrten sie ihren Humor. Newby beschreibt am Ende der gescheiterten Expedition ein Gefühl ekstatischer Freude. So entstand ein Klassiker der englischen Reiseliteratur. Nebenbei zeigt sich, dass der stoische Held die Sprache der Einheimischen spricht und über umfassende Geschichtskenntnisse verfügt, diese Fähigkeiten jedoch geschickt verbirgt. Evelyn Waugh bemerkte dazu: „Lieber Leser, wenn Sie etwas für das eigentümliche Inselvolk der Briten übrig haben, werden Sie diesem Kunststück nicht widerstehen können.“
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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.
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer to gather a wealth of irreverent and humorous detail about life in the USSR.
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
At the age of 18, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted sailing ship Moshulu of the Erikson line for the round trip from Europe to Australia and back, outwards by way of the Cape of Good Hope and round Cape Horn. This was to be an historic voyage, a dramatic personal adventure.
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.
Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. 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.
'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.
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This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.
Eric Newby’s life of travel began with strange adventures in prams, forays into the lush jungles of Harrods with his mother and into the perilous slums of darkest Hammersmith on his way to school. Such beginnings aroused his curiosity about more outlandish places, a wanderlust satisfied equally by travels through the London sewers, by bicycle to Italy and through wildest New York. His book chronicles the whole range of situations into which he has thrown himself with characteristic verve and optimism, and his perception of the incongruous is as sharp when travelling abroad in search of high fashion, as buyer to a chain of department stores, as it is when recalling his reluctant participation in a tiger shoot in India. ‘In order to belong to the inner circle of free-range travellers you have to be willing to choose the hard and hazardous bits – and this is where Eric Newby is so outstandingly good’ – Punch ‘Whatever his may be he allows us to accompany him vicariously on it . . . and his book is a delight to read’ Auberon Waugh ‘Everything Eric Newby has written is a joy. This compendium is a treat’ Geoffrey Moorhouse ‘Eric Newby’s admirers will not be disappointed’ Listener
Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and `Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.
As they travel around the sea at the centre of Western history, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda visit not only the better-known Mediterranean sights and cities but also venture into places where Westerners are Albania under Hoxha, the holy Muslim city of Fez, and a country about to disappear in civil war - the former Yugoslavia. Eric Newby entertains and enlightens as he follows in the footsteps of Cleopatra and St John, and waits for a meeting with Colonel Gaddafi. With his customary flair for description, he is equally at ease pondering King David's choice of Jerusalem as the site for a capital city or enjoying a meal cooked by one of France's finest chefs. His acute curiosity and encyclopedic knowledge combine to make absorbing reading, whether he is explaining the workings of a defunct Turkish harem or the contemporary Mafia. From antiquity to the present, Eric Newby's erudite, engaging tale is not a simple tour but a tour de force .
'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.
Zijn grootse avontuur tijdens de nadagen van de zeilvaart, 1938
Verslag van een reis met de Finse viermast-bark Moshulu van Europa naar Australië en terug.
Alla vigilia della Seconda guerra mondiale, il diciottenne Eric Newby. stufo del suo lavoro d'ufficio in un'agenzia pubblicitaria, decide di imbarcarsi come apprendista a bordo del Moshulu. un brigantino a quattro alberi adibito all'importazione del grano australiano. Il Moshulu faceva rotta alla volta dell'Australia passando per il capo di Buona Speranza e rientrava in Europa, attraverso capo Horn. con un carico di cereali. Ogni anno una dozzina di navi gareggiavano tra loro per realizzare il viaggio nel più breve tempo possibile e spuntare i prezzi migliori (di qui la 'regata del grano'). A bordo, Newby si trova a condividere le fatiche quotidiane di un difficile apprendistato con un equipaggio formato quasi per intero da marinai finlandesi, individui spesso bizzarri, ostici e litigiosi. Le difficoltà di comunicazione, il cibo immangiabile, le invasioni notturne di cimici fanno da sfondo a quello che diventerà un vero e proprio viaggio d'iniziazione, tra violente tempeste, incontri sorprendenti, zuffe, trionfi sofferti e record mancati.
Beletrizovaná reportáž, v níž anglický novinář a spisovatel vylíčil s téměř dvacetiletým odstupem zážitky ze života na jedné z posledních plachetních lodí - vícestěžňovém plnoplachetníku - podnikající od 18.10.1938 do 10.6.1939 obchodní cestu kolem světa. Vyprávění, přecházející mnohdy do formy lodního deníku, líčí cestu z Anglie kolem mysu Dobré naděje do Port Lincolnu v Austrálii a odtud kolem mysu Horn zpět do Anglie.
Met de Trans Siberië Express van Moskou naar de Stille Oceaan
Het verslag van een reis in 1977 met de Transsiberië Express van Moskou naar Nachodka aan de Stille Oceaan.
Geïllustreerde geschiedenis van de ontdekkingsreizen van ca 2000 v. Chr. tot heden, met speciale aandacht voor de motieven die tot de ontdekkingsreizen geleid hebben.
