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Love And War In The Apennines by Eric Newby
$6.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
After the Italian Armistice in 1943, Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year and evaded the advancing Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the River Po. In strange isolation he was sheltered and protected for over three months by an informal ne ...Show more
Round Ireland In Low Gear (Picador Books) (Reprint Edition) by Eric Newby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby decided that the depths of winter would be the very best time to explore Ireland by mountain bike. He even managed to persuade his long-suffering wife, Wanda to accompany him. From the shores of Donegal to the holy mountains, Newby guides the reader on a tale of misha ...Show more
Slowly Down The Ganges by Eric Newby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.On his f ...Show more
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