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What the Traveller Saw by Eric Newby

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What the Traveller Saw by Eric Newby

This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newbys travels all over the globe and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds.

‘One of the sharpest, funniest and most boisterously entertaining of all travel writers’
Jeremy Lewis, Sunday Times

‘Eric Newby seems to have an inexhaustible secret supply of that serendipity on which both travel writer and photographer depend’
Charles Nicholl, Daily Telegraph

Born in 1910 he made his first journey in 1938 when he sailed as an apprentice in the last Grain Race from Europe to Australia. He was captured during World War II and was a POW from 1942-5. After the war he entered the fashion business and book publishing. Whatever else he was doing, he always travelled on a grand scale, either under his own steam or as Travel Editor of the Observer.

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ISBN 13 9780007292035
ISBN 10 0007292031
Title What the Traveller Saw
Author Eric Newby
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2008-07-01
Number of pages 260
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.