Eric Newby - A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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This book is dedicated to Hugh Carless of Her Majestys Foreign Service, without whose determination, it must be obvious to anyone who reads it, this journey could never have been made.
Il faudrait une expdition bien organise et pourvue de moyens matrials puissants pour tenter ltude de cette rgion de haute montagne dont les rares cols sont plus de 5000 mtres daltitude.
LHindou Kouch et le Kaboulistan
Raymond Furon
ERIC NEWBY was born in London in 1919 and was educated at St Pauls School. In 1938, he joined the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu as an apprentice and sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia to Europe, by way of Cape Horn. During World War II, he served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Section. In 1942, he was captured and remained a prisoner-of-war until 1945. He subsequently married the girl who helped him escape, and for the next fifty years, his wife Wanda was at his side on many adventures. After the war, his world expanded still further into the fashion business and book publishing. Whatever else he was doing, Newby always travelled on a grand scale, either under his own steam or as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made a CBE in 1994 and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2001. Eric Newby died in 2006.
From the reviews of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush:
The most successful travel writer of his generation. Its impossible to read this book without laughing aloud
Observer
One of the most enjoyable reads of the last century
Herald Tribune
Endlessly entertaining and self-deprecating
Daily Mail
Full of serendipity and surprise
Economist
A total success
New Yorker
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush established him as a traveller who not only journeyed fruitfully but had the ability to bring his readers with him
WILLIAM TREVOR, Guardian
I still think the last few sentences of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush the funniest ending to any book I have read
GEOFFREY MOORHOUSE, The Times
The book that made [Newbys] reputation typically ironic in its understatement
Observer
Newby is easily the best of the bunch
Sunday Times
The Last Grain Race
Something Wholesale
Slowly Down the Ganges
Grain Race: Pictures of Life Before the Mast in a Windjammer
Love and War in the Apennines
The Mitchell Beazley World Atlas of Exploration
Great Ascents: A Narrative History of Mountaineering
The Big Red Train Ride
A Travellers Life
On the Shores of the Mediterranean
A Book of Travellers Tales (ed.)
Round Ireland in Low Gear
What the Traveller Saw
A Small Place in Italy
A Merry Dance Around the World: The Best of Eric Newby
Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice in the
Last of the Windjammers
Departures and Arrivals
Novices on the Milestone Buttress, Snowdonia, May 1956.
Page from the authors manuscript: Mir Samir.
Hugh Carless in the pilgrims photo booth; Meshed, Iran.
Camp on the ibex trail: hard lying on shattered rock.
On Mir Samir, a steep pitch.
Crossing the Chamar Pass; Shir Muhammad with the chestnut and Badar (Baha_dar) Khan with his white.
Eric with some of the elders in Pushal. Second from the right is the company promoter.
Stone houses with timber frames, Ramgul Valley.
The Ramgul Valley looking south towards Lake Mundul.
The proud owner of a prize fighting partridge in the Ramgul.
Wilfred Thesiger at sunup, Panjshir Valley.
Portrait of two failures.
Mr Eric Newby must not be confused with the other English writer of the same surname. I began reading A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush in the belief that it was the work of his namesake, whom I have long relished. I found something equally delightful but quite different.
Mr Eric Newby, I have since learned, is the author of an exciting sea-log, The Last Grain Race, an account of how at the age of eighteen he signed on as an apprentice of the Finnish barque Moshulu, lived in the focsle as the only Englishman, worked the ship, rounded both capes under sail in all the vicissitudes of the historic and now extinct passage from Australia to the United Kingdom of the grain-carrying windjammers. His career in the army was heroic and romantic. The bravado and endurance which had briefly made him a sailor were turned to the Kings service. After the war he went into the most improbable of trades, haute couture. It would strain the imagination to picture this stalwart young adventurer selling womens clothes. We are relieved of the difficulty by his own deliciously funny description, which immediately captivates the reader of the opening chapters of A ShortWalk. One can only use the absurdly trite phrase the call of the wild to describe the peculiar impetus which carried Mr Newby from Mayfair to the wild mountains of Afghanistan. He was no sailor when he embarked in the
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