A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Free Download By Eric Newby
| Title | : | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush |
| Author | : | Eric Newby |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 288 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0007367759 |
In 1956, Eric Newby sent a fateful cable to his friend Hugh Carless CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE The immediate three word response, OF COURSE, HUGH, would soon set in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north reast of Kabul.Inexperienced and woefully ill prepared, the amateur explorers embarked on a month of adven In 1956, Eric Newby sent a fateful cable to his friend Hugh Carless CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE The immediate three word response, OF COURSE, HUGH, would soon set in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north reast of Kabul.Inexperienced and woefully ill prepared, the amateur explorers embarked on a month of adventure and hardship in one of the most beautiful and challenging wildernesses on earth With self deprecating humour, sharp wit and keen observation, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush made Newby s reputation as one of the greatest travel writers of all time
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George Eric Newby CBE MC December 6, 1919 October 20, 2006 1 was an English author of travel literature.Newby was born and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London, and was educated at St Paul s School His father was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers but he also harboured dreams of escape, running away to sea as a child before being captured at Millwall Owing to his father s frequ George Eric Newby CBE MC December 6, 1919 October 20, 2006 1 was an English author of travel literature.Newby was born and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London, and was educated at St Paul s School His father was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers but he also harboured dreams of escape, running away to sea as a child before being captured at Millwall Owing to his father s frequent financial crises and his own failure to pass algebra, Newby was taken away from school at sixteen and put to work as an office boy in the Dorland advertising agency on Regent Street, where he spent most of his time cycling around the office admiring the typists legs Fortunately, the agency lost the Kellogg s account and he apprenticed aboard the Finnish windjammer Moshulu in 1938, sailing in what Newby entitled The Last Grain Race 1956 from Europe to Australia and back by way of Cape Horn his journey was also pictorially documented in Learning the Ropes In fact, two grain races followed the 1939 race in which Newby participated, with the last race being held in 1949 2 
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In 1956, Eric Newby sent a fateful cable to his friend Hugh Carless CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE The immediate three word response, OF COURSE, HUGH, w
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