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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.

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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

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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