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4 unusual facts about Eric Newby


Barbora Bobuľová

American television audiences know Bobuľová from her starring role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie In Love and War, where she plays Eric Newby's girlfriend Wanda.

Grain race

The Last Grain Race, a 1956 book by Eric Newby on the last (1939) voyage in the Australian grain trade by Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still transporting grain at the time

Gustaf Erikson

A young Eric Newby sailed to Australia on Moshulu in 1938–1939, as part of the South Australian grain trade.

Magda Cordell McHale

The living room on the ground floor was used for entertaining guests such as: Reyner Banham and other members of the ICA group, musicians, writers such as Eric Newby, dramatists such as Arnold Wesker, and international guests such as Buckminster Fuller, and Picasso's son, Paulo.


British Guild of Travel Writers

Previous recipients of the BGTW Lifetime Achievement Award include Hilary Bradt, the founder of the pioneering travel guidebook company Bradt Travel Guides, and the distinguished British travel writers Eric Newby and Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Dinas Cromlech

The travel writer Eric Newby gives a comic description of his first climb and almost his only training in mountaineering, the Ivy Sepulchre, led by two expert waitresses from the inn where he is staying, in his book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.

Globe Corner Bookstore

The Globe Corner Bookstore's Adventure Travel Lecture Series had hosted Jan Morris, Bradford Washburn, William Dalrymple, Bruce Chatwin, Eric Newby, Paul Theroux, Roger Tory Peterson, Rory Stewart, and David Allen Sibley, in addition to other well-known authors and travel writers.

Mir Samir

The English traveller Eric Newby and the diplomat Hugh Carless attempted to climb Mir Samir in 1956, as described in the humorous book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.


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