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Eric Newby

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born

December 06, 1919 in London, The United Kingdom

died

October 20, 2006

gender

male

genre

Travel, Biographies & Memoirs

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George Eric Newby CBE MC (December 6, 1919 – October 20, 2006[1]) was an English author of travel literature.

Newby was born and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London, and was educated at St Paul's School. His father was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers but he also harboured dreams of escape, running away to sea as a child before being captured at Millwall. Owing to his father's frequent financial crises and his own failure to pass algebra, Newby was taken away from school at sixteen and put to work as an office boy in the Dorland advertising agency on Regent Street, where he spent most of his time cycling around the office admiring the typists' legs. Fortunately, the agency lost the Kellogg's account and he apprenticed aboard...more

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Books by Eric Newby

Average rating: 3.88 · 1,606 ratings · 186 reviews · 24 distinct works

	A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, Evelyn Waugh (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 730 ratings — published 1957 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Love and War in the Apennines 4.15 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1971 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby, Wanda Newby 3.66 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1966 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Last Grain Race 4.21 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1956 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A Small Place in Italy 3.74 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby, Wanda Newby 3.39 avg rating — 67 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Big Red Train Ride 3.60 avg rating — 60 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Lonely Planet on the Shores of the Mediterranean 3.31 avg rating — 55 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Book of Traveller's Tales 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Something Wholesale (Picador Books) 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Eric Newby

“In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.”
― Eric Newby, Slowly Down the Ganges

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