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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Round the Horn Before the Mast, 1938/39
- Home from Home Italy, 1942
- Across the Oxus Kabul – Moscow – Vienna, 1956
- The Edge of the Western World Ireland, 1960
- Round Island Scilly Isles, 1963
- Mother Ganges India, 1963
- Set in a Silver Sea Great Britain, 1963
- A Queen’s Ransom Crossing The Atlantic, 1965 and 1972
- Travels in the Cévennes Without a Donkey France, 1965
- Not Such a Promising Land Israel, 1965
- Castles in the Air Spain, 1965
- Visions of a Battered Paradise Turkey, 1966
- Treetops East Africa, 1967
- Deep in the Heart of Arabia Jordan, 1968
- Where Europe Ends Portugal, 1969
- Morning of the World Bali, 1969
- Way Down the Wakwayowkastic River Canada, 1969
- Inscrutable Islanders Japan, 1970
- A Bubble in the South China Sea Hong Kong, 1970
- In the Realms of Yucatan Mexico, 1971
- Divine Archipelago Fiji, 1971
- Journey to the Centre Australia, 1971
- On and Off the Shores of the Spanish Main West Indies, 1972
- Imperial Outing China, 1973
- Heart of Darkness Sicily, 1988
- Plates
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher