On the Shores of the Mediterranean

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HarperCollins UK, Feb 21, 2013 - Travel - 448 pages

With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this is an adventure not to be missed, by Britain's best-loved travel guide, and father of the genre.

'Why don't you start in Naples and go clockwise round the Mediterranean instead of dashing off in all directions like a lunatic?' Fortunately, Eric Newby followed his wife Wanda's advice, and so begins the wonderfully madcap adventure, ‘On the Shores of the Mediterranean’.

Beginning during the Newbys' wine harvest in Tuscany, the adventurous but disaster-prone pair follow a path using every form of transportation conceivable (public bus, taxi, foot, bike, boat), from Naples to Venice, along the Adriatic to Greece, Turkey, Jerusalem and North Africa, from sipping wildly extravagant cocktails in San Marco to being cordially invited to Libya by Colonel Gaddafi.

 

Contents

A Tuscan Vineyard
3
In the Streets of Naples
16
An Evening in Venice
51
GREECE
132
THE LEVANT
195
A View of the Hellespont
219
Baths and Bazaars
231
The Harem at Topkapi
249
Return to Tobruk
375
Into a Minefield
391
Not Quite Leptis Magna
407
On the Edge of the Sahara
435
View from a Hill
449
Imperial Rock
485
Holy Week in Seville
495
Dinner at the Negresco
520

The Plain of Troy
273
An Encounter with Nomads
295
Jerusalem
319
In and Out of a Pyramid
351
The Last Vintage
535
Index
551
Copyright

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On the Shores of the Mediterranean
Eric Newby
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Eric Newby
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Eric Newby
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About the author (2013)

Eric Newby was born in London in 1919. In 1938, he joined the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu as an apprentice and sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia to Europe, by way of Cape Horn. During World War II, he served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Section. In 1942, he was captured and remained a prisoner-of-war until 1945. He subsequently married the girl who helped him to escape, and for the next fifty years, his wife Wanda was at his side on many adventures. After the war, he worked in the fashion business and book publishing but always travelled on a grand scale, sometimes as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made CBE in 1994 and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2001. Eric Newby died in 2006.

Bibliographic information

TitleOn the Shores of the Mediterranean
AuthorEric Newby
PublisherHarperCollins UK, 2013
ISBN0007508190, 9780007508198
Length448 pages
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