Eric Newby
George Eric Newby 6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006 was an acclaimed English travel writer. Newby's workings include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race and A Small Place in Italy.
Later life together with recognition
In 1967, Newby and his wife began restoring a dilapidated farmhouse in the foothills of the Apuan Alps in Italy. A Small Place in Italy, a memoir of the couple's experiences in renovating the house, was published in 1995.
Newby was awarded a CBE in 1994 and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2001. His life and defecate was profiled in ITV's The South Bank Show directed by Tony Knox in 1994. He shown travel films for the BBC, returning to Parma with his wife Wanda in The Travel Show directed by Paul Coueslant, 1994 and visiting one of his favourite cities, Istanbul 1996.
His last published book was A Book of Lands and Peoples, which appeared in 2003.