Love and War in the Apennines

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007367899
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
In 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the Italian prison camp in which he had been held for a year. Evading the advancing German army, he was sheltered by an informal network of Italian peasants. Love and War in the Apennines is Newby's tribute to these selfless and courageous people and their bleak and unchanging way of life. Of the cast of idiosyncratic characters, most notable was the beautiful local girl on a bike who would teach him the language, and eventually help him escape. Two years later they were married and would spend the rest of their lives as co-adventurers. Part travelogue, part escape story and part romance, this is a mesmerising account of wisdom, courage, humour, adventure and above all, love from the man who would become one of Britain's best-loved literary adventurers.

A Small Place in Italy

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508158
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.

Something Wholesale

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508220
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable trade of women's fashion.

When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description

Slowly Down the Ganges

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508212
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
‘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.

Peace and War

Author: Wanda Newby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780745114798
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description

The Last Grain Race

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007597833
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
First published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1956.

Round Ireland in Low Gear

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508204
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice.

Learning the Ropes

Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
With wit and nostalgia--and through radiant photographs that evoke a vanished maritime world--a master storyteller looks back on a youthful adventure that taught him the ways of the sea and ships. 160 photos.

Raiders from the Sea

Author: John Lodwick
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781784383459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Special Boat Service (SBS) was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in the Aegean, which the Germans controlled after the fall of Greece and Crete, this small commando force kept up a constant campaign of harassment, thus pinning down enemy forces and preventing their joining other fronts. John Lodwick took part in the SBS Mediterranean campaign and writes from personal experience with the panache and verve of the squadron itself.