20 October 2006(2006-10-20) (aged 86) Guildford, Surrey
Occupation
Author, travel writer
Nationality
British
Period
1956–99
Genre
History, travel, non-fiction,
Subject
India, Middle East, Britain, Europe, Afghanistan
Spouse
Wanda (née Škof)
Children
2 (Sonia and Jonathan)[1]
George Eric NewbyCBE MC (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006[2]) was an English travel writer. His works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race and A Small Place in Italy.
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George EricNewby CBE MC (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006) was an English travel writer. His works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain...
Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by the English travel writer EricNewby. It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush...
The Last Grain Race is a 1956 book by EricNewby, a travel writer, about his time spent on the four-masted steel barque Moshulu during the vessel's last...
changes of names and people and places, and some composite characters) by EricNewby. In the United States the title was changed to When the Snow Comes, They...
novel written by EricNewby, author of The Last Grain Race, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Slowly Down the Ganges. In 1967, EricNewby and his wife Wanda...
Film Year Title Role Notes 2001 Young Blades Aramis 2001 In Love and War EricNewby Television film 2003 Devil's Gate Rafe 2004 The Princess Diaries 2: Royal...
companion and secretary Sheelagh Rouse ("Buttercup"), described by the writer EricNewby, sent by Rampa's publisher Secker and Warburg to meet Rampa in Ireland...
"Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals" Newby, E. (1987) Round Ireland in Low Gear, EricNewby, London, Collins Selby, B. (1988) "Riding the Desert...
command of Captain Mikael Sjögren and with 18-year-old EricNewby as an apprentice seaman; Newby later wrote about his experiences of that voyage in the...
Nuristan and the Panjshir Valley along with his friend EricNewby, which was the subject of Newby's humorous travel book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)...
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Barque’’, describing his ten-months in Erikson’s barque Lawhill A young EricNewby sailed to Australia on Moshulu in 1938–1939, as part of the South Australian...
A few commercial ships using the route still sailed in 1948 and 1949. EricNewby chronicled the 1938 final voyage of the four-masted barque Moshulu in...
despite a local tradition that it was unclimbable. The English traveller EricNewby and the diplomat Hugh Carless attempted to climb Mir Samir in 1956, but...
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his many travel books is the acclaimed Roads to Santiago. Englishmen EricNewby, H. V. Morton, the Americans Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, and Welsh author...
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Asia. His early influences included travel writers such as Robert Byron, EricNewby, and Bruce Chatwin. Dalrymple published a book of essays about current...
United States (USA) Travis Baker Chuck Aoki Jeff Butler Sarah Lynn Adam EricNewby Lee Fredette Joshua O'Neill Clayton Brackett Bradley Hudspeth Christopher...
by the derring-do of a naval officer and the guns of the Royal Navy. EricNewby passed within sight of Inaccessible Island on his 1938–1939 voyage from...
United Nations Frederick Valentine Atkinson (1916–2002); mathematician. EricNewby (1919–2006); writer John Russell (1919–2008); chief art critic, NY Times...
the book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by the British travel writer EricNewby. Nuristan was the location of three of the missions in Hitman 2: Silent...
Hallmark Hall of Fame American television film adaptation of author EricNewby's autobiographical novel Love and War in the Apennines (retitled In Love...