Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... A Traveller's Life (1982)von Eric Newby
Keine Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Worth buying just for the first account: a tale of Newby's (man & long-suffering wife) decision to build a folly, a structure in a garden that usually incorporates water & maritime themes, combines with useless ornamentation and absolutely no purpose. Newby bought a copy of "Follies & Grottoes", a modern guide to the English folly, and proceeeded to visit as many as he could, then engaged a local mason to build one. An man entertainingly described as "able to do anything with stone but bend it"! Hilarious, including an encounter with a local threatening to report them for taking pebbles from the beach between high & low water, a region subject to very special & ancient laws. I haven't even read the rest of the book, but anything else will be a bobus on top of the first tale. Zeige 3 von 3
Agreeably miscellaneous episodes from the life of British travel-writer Newby, who has gone into more autobiographical (and scenic) detail in such memoirs as Something Wholesale, The Last Grain Race, and A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. Starting out with a bird's-eye look at the world on his 12/6/19 birthday, "That Saturday, if the weather had allowed, one could have flown to Paris or Brussels in one of the new Handley Page Commercial Aeroplanes, at a cost of £15 single fare."
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the dark streets of Barnes and the chaotic jungles of Harrods, and progressed to solo, school-bound adventures around the slums of darkest Hammersmith. His interest piqued, Newby's wanderlust snowballed, and his adventures multiplied, as he navigated the London sewer system, bicycled to Italy and meandered the wilds of New York's Broadway. Whether travelling abroad as a high-fashion buyer for a British department store or for pure adventure as a travel writer, even when reluctantly participating in a tiger shoot in India, Newby chronicles his adventures with verve, humour and infectious enthusiasm. After nine years as the travel editor for the Observer, Newby reluctantly gave up the post, eschewing the new form of human-as-freight travel. However, this change was certainly no pity for his readers, as the latter-day Newby continued on his unwavering quest for fascinating detail and adventure wherever he roamed, whether on two feet or two wheels. 'A Traveller's Life' chronicles the incredible adventures of one of the best-loved tour guides in the history of travel writing. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)910History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and TravelKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |
The selection includes some very nice bits of writing, but there are also a few rather dull makeweights (e.g. the rather tedious opening piece that simply summarises the contents of the Times for the day he was born in 1919). Highspots for me include the pieces on Harrods and on the London sewers, as well as the essay on not meeting Evelyn Waugh. Among the more exotic bits, "Love among the ruins" is an entertaining description of a rather unlikely military operation in the Levant, and the pieces about Istanbul, Lawrence's Jordan and the Sinai monastery are also well worth a read. ( )