A Traveller’s Life. Eric Newby
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ERIC NEWBY
A Traveller’s Life
ToMy Fellow Traveller
Contents
1. Birth of a Traveller (1919)
3. Rings Around the Tombs in SW13 (1923)
7. Journeys Through Darkest Hammersmith (1928–36)
10. Something in West One (1936–8)
12. Snakes and Ladders (1939–42)
13. Love Among the Ruins (1942)
15. Conducted Tours with the Third Reich (1944)
17. Commercial Traveller (1946–54)
18. Travels in My Imagination (1947)
19. When Did You Last Cross the Oxus? (1956)
20. The Most Unforgettable Character I Never Met (1958)
21. A Visitor from Lhasa (1958)
29. Treetops, East Africa (1967)
31. The Pera Palace Hotel (1969)
32. A Journey in the Wilderness (1971)
33. Wimbledon to Italy by Bicycle (1971)
35. Leaving The Observer (1973)
My first unaccompanied travels
Washing up in the port fo’c’sle