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A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, `A Merry Dance around the World' is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure.

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.

Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable trade of women's fashion.

Im Frühjahr 1956 erhielt Eric Newby, der in einem Londoner Haute-Couture-Salon arbeitete, ein Telegramm aus Rio de Janeiro: „Kannst du im Juni nach Nuristan reisen?“ Absender war ein exzentrischer Freund im diplomatischen Dienst. Es war der perfekte Zeitpunkt für zwei Abenteurer, ins Innere Afghanistans vorzudringen, da die britische Armee das Land verlassen hatte und die Region noch unberührt von Touristen und Konflikten war. Ihr Ziel war ein Sechstausender im Hindukusch, obwohl sie keine Erfahrung im Bergsteigen hatten. Sie kämpften sich durch reißende Flüsse und eisige Pässe, litten unter Hunger, Dysenterie und Insektenstichen, und trotz der Widrigkeiten bewahrten sie ihren Humor. Newby beschreibt am Ende der gescheiterten Expedition ein Gefühl ekstatischer Freude. So entstand ein Klassiker der englischen Reiseliteratur. Nebenbei zeigt sich, dass der stoische Held die Sprache der Einheimischen spricht und über umfassende Geschichtskenntnisse verfügt, diese Fähigkeiten jedoch geschickt verbirgt. Evelyn Waugh bemerkte dazu: „Lieber Leser, wenn Sie etwas für das eigentümliche Inselvolk der Briten übrig haben, werden Sie diesem Kunststück nicht widerstehen können.“

'Whatever else we remember of our travels, we remember our departures and arrivals. Often they are the most enduring of all our memories of them.' From one of Britain's best-loved travel writers comes a fascinating collection of incredible highlights from an eventful life.

Whatever else he was doing, Eric Newby has always travelled on a grand scale, whether under his own steam or as Travel Editor of the "Observer". In all of his adventures his camera has never been far from his side, and the 250 photographs reproduced in this volume represent some of his finest work

This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby's travels all over the globe - and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds. One of the funniest and most entertaining of all travel writers, Eric Newby has been wandering the by-ways of the world for over half a century. Admired for his exceptional powers of observation, Newby's genius is also to capture the unexpected, the curious and the absurd on camera. Since his very first journey in 1938, Newby's quest for the unknown and the unusual has been insatiable. Whether on a dangerous canoe trip down the Wakwayowkastic River, with the pastoral people in the mountainous north of Spain, or visiting the exotic archipelago of Fiji, nothing escapes his eye for unlikely or amusing detail. A rare combination of travel writing and photography, What the Traveller Saw is an exhilarating record of Newby's humourous adventures over the years.