Eric Newby

After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he'd been held and evaded the German army by hiding in the forests of Fontanellato, in Italy's Po Valley. He was sheltered for three months by an informal network of Italian peasants who fed, supported and nursed him before his eventual recapture. Part travelogue, part escape story and part romance, this is a mesmerising account of the early life of a man who would become one of Britain's best loved literary adventurers.

Eric Newby started in Naples and went clockwise round the Mediterranean,as his wife Wanda's advised, and so begain the wonderfully madcap adventure, ‘On the Shores of the Mediterranean’.

Eric Newby was working for a West End fashion house when he suddenly decided he must get out and live. He cabled a friend asking him to join him on an expedition to Nuristan. He recounts incidents ghastly and ecstatic on his breathless journey through the exotic Hindu Kush.

Eric Newby and Wanda, his life-long travel companion and wife, set out on an incredible journey: to travel the 1,200-mile length of India's holy river, the Ganges. Their plan is to begin in the great plain of Hardwar and finish in the Bay of Bengal, but the journey almost immediately becomes markedly slower and more treacherous than either had imagined!

In 1967 Eric Newby and his wife fulfilled a long-cherished ambition to buy a ruined farmhouse in Tuscany. This book describes their long enduring friendship with the neighbouring contandini.

After being demobbed in 1945, veteran travel writer spent eleven years as a commercial traveller in the world of haute couture. His adventures in the rag trade were every bit as interesting as his later epic journeys.