A Small Place in Italy

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 This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. Zusammenfassung This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Newby
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780007367900
• ISBN: 978-0-00-736790-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, European History, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Pictorials, Autobiography: general, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, Travel & holiday guides, Memoirs, HUMOR / Topic / Travel, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Local & family history, nostalgia, Travel and holiday guides, Classic Travel Writing, Autobiography: adventurers & explorers