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Newby, Eric

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Newby, (George) Eric (1919–2006)

English travel writer and sailor. He is best known for his chronicle of climbing Mir Samir mountain in Afghanistan, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958). His other books include The Big Red Train Ride (1978), Slowly Down the Ganges (1966), A Traveller's Life (1985), A Small Place in Italy and On the Shores of the Mediterranean (both 1998), Love and War in the Apennines (1999), and the autobiographical Something Wholesale (2002).

He was travel editor for the Observer newspaper 1964–73, and was awarded a CBE in 1994.



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