A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush [Lingua Inglese]

Newby, Eric

ISBN 10: 0001049313 ISBN 13: 9780001049314

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1995

Riassunto

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".

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L'autore:

Eric Newby was born in London in 1919. During World War II, he served in the Special Boat Section and was captured. He married the girl who helped him to escape, and for the next 50 years she was at his side on many adventures.

After the war, he worked in the fashion business and book publishing but travelled on a grand scale, sometimes as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made CBE and awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers. He died in 2006.

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CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE?

When Eric Newby, improbably earning his living in the London haute couture trade, sent his fateful cable it was the first step in a classic journey, from Mayfair to the wild mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul. As a more recent generation of travellers has discovered, Afghanistan can be an inhospitable place; as this truly diverting and wonderfully evocative book shows, it is also one of the most spectacularly beautiful wildernesses on earth.

"Eric Newby's description of their travels and travails is a total success"
NEW YORKER

"A pleasurable story of exotic and eccentric adventure"
NEW YORK TIMES

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0001049313
• ISBN 13: 9780001049314
• Rilegatura: Audio Cassetta