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Eric Newby

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 05 1919

Died: 1919 10 20062006

George Eric Newby CBE MC was an English author of travel literature.

Newby was born and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London, and was educated at St Paul's School. His father was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers but he also harboured dreams of escape, running away to sea as a child before being captured at Millwall. Owing to his father's frequent financial crises and his own failure to pass algebra, Newby was taken away from school at sixteen and put to work as an office boy in the Dorland advertising agency on Regent Street, where he spent most of his time cycling around the office admiring the typists' legs. Fortunately, the agency lost the Kellogg's account and he apprenticed aboard the Finnish windjammer Moshulu in 1938, sailing in what Newby entitled The Last Grain Race from Europe to Australia and back by way of Cape Horn . In fact, two more grain races followed the 1939 race in which Newby participated, with the last race being held in 1949.[2]

Eric Newby

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 05 1919

Died: 1919 10 20062006

George Eric Newby CBE MC was an English author of travel literature.

Newby was born and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London, and was educated at St Paul's School. His father was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers but he also harboured dreams of escape, running away to sea as a child before being captured at Millwall. Owing to his father's frequent financial crises and his own failure to pass algebra, Newby was taken away from school at sixteen and put to work as an office boy in the Dorland advertising agency on Regent Street, where he spent most of his time cycling around the office admiring the typists' legs. Fortunately, the agency lost the Kellogg's account and he apprenticed aboard the Finnish windjammer Moshulu in 1938, sailing in what Newby entitled The Last Grain Race from Europe to Australia and back by way of Cape Horn . In fact, two more grain races followed the 1939 race in which Newby participated, with the last race being held in 1949.[2]

Books from Eric Newby

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

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Slowly Down the Ganges

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Love and War in the Apennines

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The Last Grain Race

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A Small Place in Italy

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Round Ireland in Low Gear

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The Big Red Train Ride

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On the Shores of the Mediterranean

3.5/5 ( ratings)

A Book of Travellers' Tales

Love and War in the Appennines

Le roman du Cap Horn

Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice on the Last of the Windjammers

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