Slowly down the Ganges

Informationen zum Autor Eric Newby was born in London in 1919. In 1938, he joined the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu as an apprentice and sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia to Europe, by way of Cape Horn. During World War II, he served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Section. In 1942, he was captured and remained a prisoner-of-war until 1945. He subsequently married the girl who helped him to escape, and for the next fifty years, his wife Wanda was at his side on many adventures. After the war, he worked in the fashion business and book publishing but always travelled on a grand scale, sometimes as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made CBE in 1994 and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2001. Eric Newby 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