Slowly down the Ganges

Informationen zum Autor Eric Newby was born in London in 1919. During World War II, he served in the Special Boat Section and was captured. He married the girl who helped him to escape, and for the next 50 years she was at his side on many adventures. After the war, he worked in the fashion business and book publishing but travelled on a grand scale, sometimes as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made CBE and awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers. He died in 2006. Klappentext 'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history. Zusammenfassung ‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Newby
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780007367887
• ISBN: 978-0-00-736788-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; History, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Pictorials, Autobiography: general, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Adventure holidays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, Travel & holiday guides, Memoirs, HUMOR / Topic / Travel, India, Geographical discovery & exploration, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Travel guides: adventure holidays, Classic Travel Writing, Travel guides: routes and ways, Autobiography: adventurers & explorers