SLOWLY DOWN THE GANGES

LOVE AND WAR IN THE APENNINES

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.

ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

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’.

A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH

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.

A SMALL PLACE IN ITALY

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.

SOMETHING WHOLESALE

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.