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	Eric Newby. The Last Grain Race... - Russian Bookstore: Travel, History, Language
		Newby and the reader often have to work out the language; if the reader misses the first context or explanation then subsequent uses of the terminology will be lost, a glossary might have helped here.
		Newby does faithfully record dialects especially when he is being spoken to in occasionally recognizable English and these dialogues are often amusingly recounted.
		Eric Newby should seriously consider issuing both in a single volume and one has to wonder why this wasn't done when Grain Race was first issued or at least when "Learning the Ropes" was released a couple of years ago.
	www.fabrussia.com /books-essays-travelogues/017/eric-newby-the-last-grain-race.htm (874 words)

	Eric Newby. Slowly Down the Ganges... - Russian Bookstore: Travel, History, Language
		Newby's travelling companion, his wife, the long-suffering Wanda, is rendered something of an enigma in SLOWLY DOWN THE GANGES.
		Apart from delivering Newby from the dire gastric consequences of provincial Indian foods ("Wanda had produced [white radishes] artfully from a mysterious-looking bag.") her reason for being appears mostly to be for materialising at inopportune moments, usually the apex of some maddening asperity, in order to scorch the occasion with some withering remark.
		This surely had Newby tearing at his hair, but the narrative is infused with a rich vein of self-deprecating humour because of it.
	fabrussia.com /books-essays-travelogues/018/eric-newby-slowly-down-the-ganges.htm (751 words)

	Eric Newby; writer melded humor, adventure of travel - The Boston Globe
		British writer Eric Newby, author of the travel classic "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush," died Friday near Guildford, in southern England, of natural causes, his daughter Sonia Ashmore said.
		LONDON -- British writer Eric Newby, author of the travel classic "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush," died Friday near Guildford, in southern England, of natural causes, his daughter Sonia Ashmore said.
		Newby served as travel editor of The Observer newspaper between 1964 and 1973 and continued to travel, frequently accompanied by his wife.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/10/26/eric_newby_writer_melded_humor_adventure_of_travel (329 words)

	Short walk, long wit of writer Eric Newby
		Newby's first adventure began at age 18 when he left his comfortable middle-class life to join the crew of one of the world's last commercial sailing ships, a four-masted barque called the Moshulu, which hauled grain from Australia to Ireland.
		Newby was also an accomplished photographer and his photos of the Moshulu's final voyage were published in 1999's "Learning the Ropes." Sadly, his Hindu Kush photos were lost when a pack horse waded through a deeper-than-expected river.
		Throughout the interview, Eric's pale blue eyes sparkled, reflecting, I imagined, the sheen of an Afghan glacier or the shimmer of the flowing Ganges.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/29/TRG7FM0GJ21.DTL&type=printable (754 words)

	Eric Newby; a master of travel writing, and understatement \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Eric Newby, the dean of postwar British travel writers who spent more than a half-century visiting some of the world's most remote places in journeys that to his great delight often went horribly wrong, died Oct. 20 near Guildford, in Surrey, England.
		Newby chronicled the arduous journey in “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush,” published in Britain in 1958 and in the United States the next year.
		Newby is survived by his wife, Wanda; daughter, Sonia Ashmore; and son, Jonathan, according to wire-service reports.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20061029/news_lz1j29newby.html (685 words)

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		Newby states explicitly that the book is dedicated to what he describes as the incredible selfless courage of the Italians who protected him and other allied military personnel from the Nazi-fascists.
		Eric Newby is a POW on the run in Italy in 1943.
		Newby is grateful for her help, and falls in love with her.
	www.italystl.com /ra/647.htm (873 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Obituaries
		George Eric Newby was born on a wild December night in Barnes, south-west London in 1919.
		Newby was very particular about what he wrote, but was courteous and usually very amusing in his dealings with sub-editors, having a real concern for the ordinary person.
		For 25 years the Newbys had a house at the foot of the Apuan Alps, I Castagni, where, demonstrating his vigour and robustness, Eric dug and planted a vineyard; this time in Italy was turned into a book, A Small Place in Italy (1994).
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article1919329.ece (1191 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 10/22/2006 \| British travel writer Eric Newby dies at 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born and raised in London, Newby gave up a job in advertising in 1938 to sail on a Finnish grain ship to Australia and back, a voyage he later recounted in The Last Grain Race.
		Newby served as travel editor of The Observer newspaper between 1964 and 1973.
		Newby is survived by his wife, his daughter and a son.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/news/obituaries/15824389.htm (253 words)

	British travel writer Eric Newby dies
		LONDON (Reuters) - British travel writer Eric Newby, who chronicled his adventures in Afghanistan, India and Italy in a series of books, has died aged 86, his family said on Sunday.
		Newby died on Friday near Guildford, southern England, from natural causes, his daughter Sonia Ashmore said.
		During World War Two, Newby served in the elite Special Boat Service but was taken prisoner during an operation off the Italian coast for which he was later awarded a gallantry medal, the Military Cross.
	entertainment.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=154693 (365 words)

	Travel Books by Eric Newby - UK Bookshop
		The title, of course, is a fine example of Newby's habitual self-effacement, since his journey--which included a near-ascent of the 19,800-foot Mir Samir--was anything but short.
		Newby is a less acidulous writer, to be sure, and he has little interest in launching the sort of heat-seeking satiric missiles that were Waugh's specialty.
		Newby went to the mountains where, with the help of locals, he evaded the retreating enemy.
	www.uk-bookshop.com /literature/eric_newby.htm (627 words)

	Travel writer Eric Newby, author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, dead at 86 - October 22, 2006 - Canadaeast.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LONDON (AP) - British writer Eric Newby, author of the travel classic "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush," has died, his family said Sunday.
		Newby died of natural causes, his daughter Sonia Ashmore said.
		Newby served as travel editor of the Observer newspaper between 1964 and 1973 and continued to travel, frequently accompanied by his wife.
	www.canadaeast.com /cp/entertainment/article2.php?articleID=57673 (320 words)

	Eric Newby \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		Eric Newby, who died on Friday aged 86, was the author of some of the best books in the canon of English travel writing, notably A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines.
		Informed by a pin-sharp eye and a self-deprecating persona, Newby's literary style was inspired by the comic portrait of the Englishman abroad presented in the writings of Alexander Kinglake, Robert Byron and Evelyn Waugh.
		For Newby's "short walk" was in reality an arduous journey through the more remote parts of Afghanistan, culminating in a dangerous assault on Mir Samir, an unclimbed glacial peak of 20,000ft.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/23/db2301.xml (302 words)

	Love and War in the Appennines by Eric Newby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he had spent a year and made his way through the forests and mountains south of the Po River.
		Newby writes of the idiosyncracies as well as the warmth and generosity of the people who gave him a temporary home, and reveals in often hilarious detail the awakening of his feelings for the local girl who would become his wife.
		Eric Newby is a POW on the run in Italy in 1943.
	italian-mysteries.com /EN01.html (485 words)

	Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - PowerBookSearch!
		Newby is a less acidulous writer, to be sure, and he has little interest in launching the sort of heat-seeking satiric missiles that were Waugh's specialty.
		Newby's frank and funny account of their expedition to what is still amongst the world's most isolated areas is one of the classics of travel writing.
		Newby belongs to that enduring set of English travelers who investigate the world for their own amusement and then, to our great profit and pleasure, share their experience with us.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0864426046.html (772 words)

	Eric Newby-Comment-Obituaries-TimesOnline
		Chucking in his job, Newby got together in London with Carless, who was by then in between Rio and a pending posting to Tehran, and the pair put in a somewhat unrealistic preparation for their endeavour, with a crash course on rock climbing in Wales.
		Newby was sent to a camp at Chieti a few miles inland from Pescara on the Adriatic coast, and later to Fontanello, near Parma.
		Eric Newby is survived by Wanda and by their son and daughter.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/obituaries/article609602.ece (1863 words)

	British travel writer Eric Newby dies. 23/10/2006. ABC News Online
		British travel writer Eric Newby, who chronicled his adventures in Afghanistan, India and Italy in a series of books, has died aged 86, his family says.
		"Eric was a man with enormous energy, warmth and curiosity," his family said in a statement.
		During World War II, Newby served in the elite Special Boat Service but was taken prisoner during an operation off the Italian coast for which he was later awarded a gallantry medal, the Military Cross.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200610/s1770781.htm (355 words)

	On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby
		Although no stranger to the Mediterranean or its shores (Newby nearly drowned in it during the war), he set off round it in a clockwise direction, visiting most of the fifteen countries that surround it and seeing en route a remarkable variety of people, places and things.
		With his wife Wanda, but for whose wisdom he would almost certainly have ended up in a coffin, a jail, or even a madhouse, Newby investigates the wonders of the Mediterranean as it is and as it was.
		Eric Newby has been compared to the much-travelled Greek Eudoxus, "a man inclined to admire the peculiarities of regions and, also, not uninformed about them' He is also possessed of senses alive to everything he encounters: little of significance and still less of the absurd escapes his eye.
	www.italian-mysteries.com /EN03.html (262 words)

	Eric Newby: Through Love and War: Michael Shapiro - Flying Carpet - Travelers' Tales
		Newby, who was eighty-four when we met, occasionally had difficulty recalling distant events, but Wanda sat by his side and prompted him.
		Eric hadn’t written anything, and this publisher said, “Have you got any pictures?” Eric said, “Yes, I’ve got a lot of pictures.” So the publisher said, “Why don’t you do a book on the pictures with captions?” And he started writing, writing, writing, and it became more than captions.
		Eric: He was going to our wine merchant and we passed one another and both after a few yards turned round and looked at one another, and then went on (laughs).
	travelerstales.com /carpet/002424.shtml (4442 words)

	On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby
		On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby
		Although no stranger to the Mediterranean or its shores (Newby nearly drowned in it during the war), he set off round it in a clockwise direction, visiting most of the fifteen countries that surround it and seeing en route a remarkable variety of people, places and things.
		Eric Newby has been compared to the much-travelled Greek Eudoxus, "a man inclined to admire the peculiarities of regions and, also, not uninformed about them' He is also possessed of senses alive to everything he encounters: little of significance and still less of the absurd escapes his eye.
	italian-mysteries.com /EN03.html (262 words)

	Eric Newby, 86, Acclaimed British Travel Writer, Dies - New York Times
		Eric Newby, a dean of postwar British travel writing who spent more than half a century visiting some of the world’s remotest places in journeys that to his great delight often went horribly wrong, died on Friday near Guildford, in Surrey, England.
		Newby also spent a deeply uncomfortable winter touring Ireland by bicycle, a voyage whose damp agonies are described unsparingly in “Round Ireland in Low Gear” (Viking, 1987).
		Newby is survived by a son, Jonathan, according to wire-service reports.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/10/24/obituaries/24newby.html?ex=1319342400&en=ffa684010a8f8f8c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (891 words)

	botanizing: Eric Newby
		Newby was a buyer of women’s fashions, and the book began in London at the showing of the 1956 Spring Collection in a blizzard.
		Eric Newby must have loved pathos for he built his story upon layer after layer of ill-preparation and beleaguered failure, but he told it with adventure and well-stated, if subtle, humor.
		Lacking experience with ice, Newby took from his pack a book on technical climbing and followed its instructions on chopping steps—“there was nothing else to do,” Newby wrote—“It was far harder work than I had imagined.
	botanizing.typepad.com /botanizing/2006/10/eric_newby.html (779 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Small Place in Italy: Books: Eric Newby,Andrew Sachs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The typical Newby humour is complimented by the deep emotions that Eric Newby associated with the place, the people and the way of life that like all else seems to eventually fade or disappear.
		Eric newby, and his wife, Wanda acquire a small and ruined farmhouse in the foothills of the Alps.
		Newby met Wanda when he was a POW on the run during WW2, a story recounted in 'Love and War In The Appenines'.
	www.amazon.ca /Small-Place-Italy-Eric-Newby/dp/074516479X (837 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Writer Eric Newby dead at 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Newby, who chronicled his adventures in Afghanistan, India and Italy in a series of books, has died aged 86, his family said on Sunday.
		Aged 18, the London-born Newby became an apprentice on a four-masted sailing ship engaged in the Australian grain trade with Europe, a voyage he described in "The last grain race" (1956).
		During World War Two, Newby served in the elite Special Boat Service but was taken prisoner during an operation off the Italian coast for which he was later awarded a gallantry medal, the Military Cross.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=1566832006 (591 words)

	Eric Newby (1919–2006) - Britannica Blog
		Eric Newby, the marvelous British traveler, raconteur, trader in improbabilities, and writer, gave himself many opportunities to die throughout his long life.
		Having survived that much, Newby decided to usher in his mid-thirties by training to become a mountaineer.
		Newby was indeed a fabulous writer … he motivated many to take dreams in hand and hit the road.
	blogs.britannica.com /blog/main/2006/11/eric-newby-1919-2006 (651 words)

	British travel writer Eric Newby dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LONDON — British writer Eric Newby, author of the travel classic "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush," has died.
		Newby died Friday of natural causes, his daughter Sonia Ashmore said.
		Newby is survived by his wife, his daughter and a son.
	travelnewsguide.com /travel-news/British-travel-writer-Eric-Newby-dies (366 words)

	A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby
		JACKET NOTES: In 1967 Eric and Wanda Newby fulfilled a long-cherished dream when they bought a run-down farmhouse in northern Tuscany, in the foothills of the Italian Alps.
		With his characteristic wry humor and sharp eye for the quirks of human nature, Eric Newby paints an unforgettable picture of rural Italy and its people.
		At the center of his memoir is the farmhouse itself, which from unpromising beginnings - tileless roof, long-abandoned septic tank and mice the size of small cats - was gradually restores.
	www.italian-mysteries.com /EN02.html (158 words)

	Eric Newby \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Newby was born at the tail end of the Victorian and Edwardian era, when Englishmen explored the world with purpose and intent rather than for frivolous pleasure, enduring gender-testing hardship wherever possible.
		Born and brought up in Barnes, south-west London, Newby was sent to St Paul's school, his middle-class parents, George and Hilda, no doubt intending him for a thoroughly conventional future, perhaps a notch up socially, with a safe, well-paid nine to five job and a Joan Hunter-Dunn marriage.
		Newby had a wife and a son and daughter to support, and full-time travel writing, let alone the expense of gathering the material, had severe limitations.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1928810,00.html (1107 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Big Red Train Ride (Picador Books): Books: Eric Newby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Unfortunately Newby's style of writing can be quite workmanlike and as such you don't get any feeling for his thoughts about his fellow travellers or those he meets on the journey.
		It may be that Eric Newby is an acquired taste, but I find his style of writing insufferable- his style is dull, his jokes leaden and for a famous traveller, his natural metier is the Little Englander comparing the USSR with the delights of the West Country.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Big-Train-Ride-Picador-Books/dp/033030805X (971 words)

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