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Eric Newby recounts his life, from his earliest childhood adventures in darkest Barnes, to an elephant fair in India; from the faded glamour of days and nights on the Orient Express, to a troglodytic settlement of opal miners in Australia where even armed men have disappeared.
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Eric Newby may have been entitled to his pension for over a decade, but he is still globetrotting to his heart's content. In Departures and Arrivals, he brings us up to date on his latest world travels. Naturally, these no longer involve him navigating the length of the world's holiest river (Slowly Down the Ganges) or attempting to climb mountains with no previous experience (A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush)--but nevertheless, Newby'e endless curiosity for the world around him makes this book a worthy addition to his canon.
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Beginning with his childhood memories of a Barnes that is long dead, he moves to evocations of the Orient Express, a lovely story from Calabria and a religious festival in Rajahstan which clearly moved him greatly. We also learn that Newby "discovered" the Meridian line, 2 degrees West, seven years before Nicholas Crane (Two Degrees West), when he sets off to cycle its length in 1991. In fact, this prescience, combined with his observant piece on Yemen which seems almost to foreshadow the great success of Tim Macintosh-Smith's Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land", goes to show that although Newby may be bowing gracefully to a younger generation of travel writers, he can still show them a thing or two. -- Toby Green
"Newby possesses all the properties of a good travel writer: the understatement, the self-ridicule, and the delight in the foreignness of foreigners."--Evelyn Waugh
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0786233168
- ISBN 13 9780786233168
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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