1982-1999 A Traveller's Life; A Small Place in Italy; Departures and Arrivals

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first editions, first impressions of these works.

Complete with the publisher's unclipped dust wrappers. 

A fascinating trio of travel memoirs from prolific English writer Eric Newby. 

A Traveller's Life (1982) - Chronicles his varied life and adventures around the world as a soldier, sailor, salesman, and editor. From Newby's early childhood to his leaving his job at The Observer as Travel Editor, in 1973.

A Small Place in Italy (1994) - In 1967, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda acquired an old run-down farmhouse in Italy, I Castagni (The Chestnuts), in the foothills of the Apuan Alps on the borders of Liguria and northern Tuscany. The book is a personal memoir of the couple's experiences in renovating the house.

Departures and Arrivals (1999) - A charming stand-alone collection of (mostly) travel tales and reminiscences of Newby's earlier life. With pieces about England, India, Italy, Yemen, Turkey and Holland, among many other places.