A Merry Dance Around the World With Eric Newby (48 page)

Spancil Hill, the fair at, 252–7

Special Air Service (SAS), 55

Special Boat Section (SBS), 54–56, 58, 63

Spencer Gulf, 25, 42

Stallybrass, Miss, 128–31

Stanjel, 87

Steppe of Ishim, 227–30

Stirling, David, 55

Stock’s Hotel, Sark, 9

Stuart Ogilvie-Keir-Gordon, ‘Jamie’, 79

Suez Canal, 54, 186

Switzerland, 85–6, 92

Symonds, A.J.A., 56

Syria, 58

Syriacs, 60

Taanila, 36–7, 41

Tajiks, tribe, 152, 157, 159–60

Talaa, Souk of, 199, 202–3

Tartus, 62

Tchadaudja Oil Harbour, 238

Tehran, 152

Tel Aviv, 57

Termoli, 115

Thames Head, 163

The Robe
, 129

The Times
, 1–2, 4, 152

Theory of the Leisure Class
, 240

Thesiger, Wilfred, 159–62

Tobruk, 56

Tochi Scouts, 137

Tom, 242–3

Torre dell’Orologio, 183

train ride, the big red, 220–7

to the great ocean, night, 233–8

Trans-Siberian Railway, 231

Trans-Siberian Train, 217–18, 220

Tria, 31–2, 38, 43–4

Tripoli, 58–9

Tristran da Cunha, 31

Trotsky, Leon, 3

Tryfan, 150

Turkey, 58

Ugalotti, Giovanni Pietro, 73

Ugarit, 61

Una
, 64–8

Upper Panjshir, 159

Ussuri, 235

Uzbeks, 224–5

Val d’Aosta, 86

Valiant
, 55

Valker, Yonny, 36–7, 40, 45

Valley of the Nile, 188

Veblen, Thorstein, 240

Venice, 180–5

Versailles, Treaty of, 3

Vescovo, Signor, 260

Via Emilia, Parma, 71, 94

Vishwanath Lane, Allahabad, 176

Viyella, 80

Vladivostok, 218

Vostochnyy, 238

Vostok
, 233–8

Vrangel Bay, 238

Vyazemskiy, 235

Wanda
see
Newby, Wanda Wehrmacht Republic, 100

Western Desert, 56

Westward Ho!, 9–14

Wilkins, Mr, 129, 132–6

Winterstellung
, 115

Wonder Book of Why and What
, 229

Worth-Paquin, 138

Yaroslavl Station, 218, 223

Yokohama, 219, 236

Zanoni, Signor, 97, 99–105, 107–9

Zawiya, Fez, 207

ERIC NEWBY was born in London in 1919 and was educated at St Paul’s School. 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 escape, and for the next fifty years, his wife Wanda was at his side on many adventures. After the war, his world expanded still further – into the fashion business and book publishing. Whatever else he was doing, Newby always travelled on a grand scale, either under his own steam or as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made a CBE in 1994 and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2001. Eric Newby died in 2006.

THE LAST GRAIN RACE
A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH
SOMETHING WHOLESALE
SLOWLY DOWN THE GANGES
GRAIN RACE: PICTURES OF LIFE
BEFORE THE MAST IN A WINDJAMMER
LOVE AND WAR IN THE APENNINES
WORLD ATLAS OF EXPLORATION
GREAT ASCENTS
THE BIG RED TRAIN RIDE
A TRAVELLER’S LIFE
ON THE SHORE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
TRAVELLERS’ TALES
ROUND IRELAND IN LOW GEAR
WHAT THE TRAVELLER SAW
A SMALL PLACE IN ITALY

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