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Jan 1, 1919 — Jan 1, 2006· 87 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · TRAVEL · VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

Eric Newby

Also known as: Newby Eric., ERIC NEWBY

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George Eric Newby CBE MC (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006) was an English travel author. Newby's best known works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race, and Round Ireland in Low Gear. The ground was like iron with sharp rocks sticking up out of it. We started to blow up our air-beds. ' God, you must be a couple of pansies,' said Thesiger.

London, United Kingdom
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CASTELNAU MANSIONS, BARNES, sw13, the block of flats in which I was born, in 1919, on the south side of Hammersmith Bridge, was one of several such blocks built in the 1900s on what had been marshland and open country.

— from Departures and Arrivals, 1999

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#1

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

1958

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It is an autobiographical travelogue of Eric Newby,describing,in a comic,understated style,his ascent to Mir Samir.

#2

A small place in Italy

1994

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#3

Slowly down the Ganges

1966

5.0 (1)

The author recounts his experiences traveling down the Ganges River in India with his wife, and shares his observations on the country and its people.

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