Advantages: Small chunks, entertaining Disadvantages: You get such small snippits!
...This book is a compendium of travellers tales, taken from documents both ancient and modern. The volume is arranged by continent, and within that by date, earliest first. Some of the entries are by writers better known for other things - Lord Byron and Daniel Defoe among them. The tales range from meetings with kings to danger and daring, and make a fascinating read. EricNewby knows a thing or two about travel writing having written such gems as A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. The book is absolutely great for a snatched five minutes, as most of the entries are quite short....
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Advantages: fascinating Disadvantages: a bit old school
...This is the story of EricNewby's trip to the hinterlands of Asia, trekking through the Himalayas, Afghanistan and Nuristan. It is a classic travel book in the 'got bored with working in a shop and buggered off to the back of beyond, don't you know' style. Extremely engaging and fascinating, with a healthy respect for the wilderness, despite a certain naivety about how hard it would actually be. Just as the travellers reach the limits of their endurance, they bump into another traveller of godlike stature who has an alternative view of their adventure....
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Advantages: An amazing adventure story incorporating romance, history and beautiful scenery Disadvantages: War aspect may put potential readers off
...I am a great fan of travel writing and it was during a discussion about travel writers that I first heard of EricNewby. Soon after I came across one of his best known books "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" and snapped it up. Reading the biography of the author, I was intrigued to learn that he had originally worked in the fashion industry and, at the suggestion of a colleague, had agreed to try a little mountaineering - this was the catalyst for "Hindu Kush". However, I later found out that this was not the beginning of EricNewby's remarkable and amazing life. On reading "Love and War in the Apennines" I realised that there was more to this man than ever I had suspected.
During the Second World War, EricNewby, a British Soldier, was captured by the Italians and imprisoned in a small town at the foot of the Apennine mountains...
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Advantages: Small chunks, entertaining Disadvantages: You get such small snippits!
...This book is a compendium of travellers tales, taken from documents both ancient and modern. The volume is arranged by continent, and within that by date, earliest first. Some of the entries are by writers better known for other things - Lord Byron and Daniel Defoe among them. The tales range from meetings with kings to danger and daring, and make a fascinating read. EricNewby knows a thing or two about travel writing having written such gems as A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. The book is absolutely great for a snatched five minutes, as most of the entries are quite short....
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Ciao members have rated this review on average off topic
Advantages: fascinating Disadvantages: a bit old school
...This is the story of EricNewby's trip to the hinterlands of Asia, trekking through the Himalayas, Afghanistan and Nuristan. It is a classic travel book in the 'got bored with working in a shop and buggered off to the back of beyond, don't you know' style. Extremely engaging and fascinating, with a healthy respect for the wilderness, despite a certain naivety about how hard it would actually be. Just as the travellers reach the limits of their endurance, they bump into another traveller of godlike stature who has an alternative view of their adventure....
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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Advantages: An amazing adventure story incorporating romance, history and beautiful scenery Disadvantages: War aspect may put potential readers off
...I am a great fan of travel writing and it was during a discussion about travel writers that I first heard of EricNewby. Soon after I came across one of his best known books "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" and snapped it up. Reading the biography of the author, I was intrigued to learn that he had originally worked in the fashion industry and, at the suggestion of a colleague, had agreed to try a little mountaineering - this was the catalyst for "Hindu Kush". However, I later found out that this was not the beginning of EricNewby's remarkable and amazing life. On reading "Love and War in the Apennines" I realised that there was more to this man than ever I had suspected.
During the Second World War, EricNewby, a British Soldier, was captured by the Italians and imprisoned in a small town at the foot of the Apennine mountains...
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