What the Traveller Saw
by Eric Newby
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This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby's travels all over the globe - and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds. One of the funniest and most entertaining of all travel writers, Eric Newby has been wandering the by-ways of the world for over half a century. Admired for his exceptional powers of observation, Newby's genius is also to capture the unexpected, the curious and the absurd on camera. Since his very first show more journey in 1938, Newby's quest for the unknown and the unusual has been insatiable. Whether on a dangerous canoe trip down the Wakwayowkastic River, with the pastoral people in the mountainous north of Spain, or visiting the exotic archipelago of Fiji, nothing escapes his eye for unlikely or amusing detail. A rare combination of travel writing and photography, What the Traveller Saw is an exhilarating record of Newby's humourous adventures over the years. show lessTags
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Sadly, this pot boiler, mainly a “picture-book” is one of the last we can possibly read from the pen of this great author, who died not long after publishing this fine collection of memories and very good photographs of his collective travels with his beloved wife, the indomitable Wanda.
Proud to own it – it closes out the fine collection of this author’s work on travel, cultures and life.
Proud to own it – it closes out the fine collection of this author’s work on travel, cultures and life.
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Eric Newby is the author of many books. As a boy, his interest in travel was piqued by the book Children's Colour Book of Lands and People, with its photos and descriptions of exotic places to which he dreamed of traveling one day. When not traveling, he makes his home in Dorset, England, with his wife, Wanda
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- Original publication date
- 1989
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- Genres
- Travel, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 910.4 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Accounts of travel and facilities for travellers
- LCC
- G465 .N493 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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- (4.04)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
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