Around the World in 80 Years

A BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED, HIGHLY ILLUSTRATED VOLUME DOCUMENTING THE HUGELY VARIED AND ALWAYS ENTERTAINING CAREER OF ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED TRAVEL WRITERS.

Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul's School. He began his travelling career in a perambulator between Hammersmith Bridge and such seaside resorts as Frinton. In 1938 he persuaded his father to have him apprenticed to the four-masted Finnish barque 'Moshulu' and, with camera in to, sailed the Grain Race from Australia to Europe by way of Cape Horn - the beginning of a lifelong passion for both travel photography.

During the war Newby served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Service and was awarded the Military Cross. It was as a prisoner of war in Italy that he first met Wanda, his beloved wife and travelling companion of many years. Following the war he spent ten years as a commercial traveller and in a London couture house before resuming his travelling career when he decided to take a 'Short Walk in the Hindu Kush'

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Eric Newby

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An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain's best-loved travel writers.