TRAVELLERS LIFE EPUB ED EB

Eric Newby

• Publisher: HarperPress
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780007367870
• eBook ISBN: 9780007508167
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies

A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush.

Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the dark streets of Barnes and the chaotic jungles of Harrods, and progressed to solo, school-bound adventures around the slums of darkest Hammersmith. His interest piqued, Newby's wanderlust snowballed, and his adventures multiplied, as he navigated the London sewer system, bicycled to Italy and meandered the wilds of New York's Broadway. Whether travelling abroad as a high-fashion buyer for a British department store or for pure adventure as a travel writer, even when reluctantly participating in a tiger shoot in India, Newby chronicles his adventures with verve, humour and infectious enthusiasm.

After nine years as the travel editor for the Observer, Newby reluctantly gave up the post, eschewing the new form of human-as-freight travel. However, this change was certainly no pity for his readers, as the latter-day Newby continued on his unwavering quest for fascinating detail and adventure wherever he roamed, whether on two feet or two wheels. 'A Traveller's Life' chronicles the incredible adventures of one of the best-loved tour guides in the history of travel writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Birth of a Traveller (December 1919)
• Chapter Two: The Baby as a Traveller
• Chapter Three: Rings Around the Tombs in SW13 (1923)
• Chapter Four: Travels in Harrods
• Chapter Five: Westward Ho! (1925)
• Chapter Six: A Walk in the Sun (1925)
• Chapter Seven: Journeys Through Darkest Hammersmith (1928–36)
• Chapter Eight: Lands and Peoples
• Chapter Nine: Mystery Tour (1927)
• Chapter Ten: Something in West One (1936–8)
• Chapter Eleven: I Go to Sea (1938)
• Chapter Twelve: Snakes and Ladders (1939–42)
• Chapter Thirteen: Love Among the Ruins (1942)
• Chapter Fourteen: A Trip to Italy (1942)
• Chapter Fifteen: Conducted Tours with the Third Reich (1944)
• Chapter Sixteen: Götterdämmerung (1944–5)
• Chapter Seventeen: Commercial Traveller (1946–54)
• Chapter Eighteen: Travels in My Imagination (1947)
• Chapter Nineteen: When Did You Last Cross the Oxus? (1956)
• Chapter Twenty: The Most Unforgettable Character I Never Met (1958)
• Chapter Twenty-One: A Visitor from Lhasa (1958)
• Chapter Twenty-Two: MG Buyer (1960–3)
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Down the Drain (1963)
• Chapter Twenty-Four: A Princely Shoot (1963)
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Lonely Islands (1964)
• Chapter Twenty-Six: New York (1965)
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Walk on Broadway (1965)
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Lawrence’s Jordan (1967)
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Treetops, East Africa (1967)
• Chapter Thirty: Orient Express (1969)
• Chapter Thirty-One: The Pera Palace Hotel (1969)
• Chapter Thirty-Two: A Journey in the Wilderness (1971)
• Chapter Thirty-Three: Wimbledon to Italy by Bicycle (1971)
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Port-au-Prince (1972)
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Leaving The Observer (1973)
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Praise
• Also by the Author
• Plates
• Copyright
• About the Publisher