The story of the author's journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul.

Eric Newby recounts his life, from his earliest childhood adventures in darkest Barnes, to an elephant fair in India; from the faded glamour of days and nights on the Orient Express, to a troglodytic settlement of opal miners in Australia where even armed men have disappeared.

The Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer to gather a wealth of irreverent detail about life in the USSR.

In 1967, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda acquired I Castagni (The Chestnuts), a small and ruined farmhouse in the foothills of the Apuan Alps in Italy. For 25 years, they remained the only foreigners to live in the area. This book recounts the Newbys' life in their house.

At the age of 18, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted sailing ship Moshulu of the Erikson line for the round trip from Europe to Australia and back, outwards by way of the Cape of Good Hope and round Cape Horn. This was to be an historic voyage, a dramatic personal adventure.

Eric Newby describes his travels in the mountains of Afghanistan. He has also written The Last Grain Race , Slowly Down the Ganges , Love and War in the Apennines and On the Shores of the Mediterranean .

Eric Newby tells of his time spent in Italy after the 1943 armistice. He describes the kindness of the peasants and the beauty of the landscape. It is here that he also met the girl who was to become his wife.

A chronicle of the adventures and travels of Eric Newby, ranging from his time as a fashion buyer for a chain of department stores to his participation in a tiger shoot in India. Last published in 1983.

In this selection from Eric Newby's published writings, readers learn about a variety of things including: how to clean out a pigsty in a gale near Cape Horn; what it is like to row 1200 miles down the Ganges; and what life is like behind the German lines in occupied Italy.

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.

The story of the 1,200 mile journey made by Eric Newby and his wife down the holy river of India, travelling in a variety of boats, and sometimes by rail, bus and bullock carts, and staying on sandbanks, in villages and towns where they encountered an assortment of characters. Last published in 1983.