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Eric Newby

April 2020

  • Portrait of Newby High res

    Apennines to Afghanistan: Eric Newby's travels in pictures

    A new virtual exhibition, What the Traveller Saw, the first of its kind by the Royal Geographical Society, marks the centenary of the birth of the writer and former Observer travel editor

December 2017

  • The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks

    Books blog
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

April 2015

  • Vaporetto in Venice

    Reading group
    Reading group: Jan Morris’s Venice remakes the city

    In common with the best travel writing, the imaginative life of her prose gives a fresh charge to the real experience of being there

March 2015

  • Wanda Newby

    Other lives
    Wanda Newby obituary

    Other lives: Author and muse to her husband the renowned travel writer Eric Newby

January 2014

  • archive POOK

    A look back
    From the Observer archive, 9 January 1966: who and when not to tip

    Eric Newby on the undemocratic practice of tipping and how to reduce it

January 2012

  • A Short Walk in a Hindu Kush

    Hugh Carless obituary

    Distinguished diplomat who was immortalised in Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, the 1958 account of their two-man expedition

April 2011

  • Wanda Newby

    Eric Newby's other half

    Wanda, the great travel writer's widow, is as formidable a presence in real life as she is in Newby's books, as Sam Jordison discovers

March 2007

  • Books blog
    The enduring magic of Eric Newby

    Returning to the great travel writer for the first time since he died, I am reminded of what we've lost, but consoled by how much life his books retain.

October 2006

  • 'I remember the hum of excitement he created'

    At the foot of a path leading into the Mountains of the Moon, Uganda, there is a hut containing a visitor's book. When the elderly warden in charge noted that in it I had given The Observer as my address, he said, 'Oh! Please send my greeting to Eric Newby.' (After that he inquired, 'Do you know any Essex girl jokes?')

  • Memories of a traveller's life

    Eric Newby, one of the world's best-loved travel writers and former Observer travel editor, died on 20 October, aged 86. Here we reprint a passage from his classic book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. Ill-prepared and inexperienced, Newby and his friend Hugh Carless have endured a month of hardship during their adventure in Afghanistan. Now nearing the end of the trip, they cross paths with the legendary traveller, Wilfred Thesiger ...

    • Travel blog
      Memories of Eric Newby

    • Hindu Kush writer Newby dies aged 86

    • Eric Newby

December 2003

  • Discovery and derring-do

    Ian Thomson admires A Book of Lands and Peoples, an anthology of travellers' tales from the golden age of exploration, edited by Eric Newby

August 2003

  • Wilfred Thesiger, explorer and travel writer

    Meeting Thesiger in Piccadilly and the Hindu Kush

    Fellow traveller Eric Newby recalls his encounters with the great Wilfred Thesiger.

November 2001

  • News in brief

    One price fits all in Ryanair offer | Bargains to India | Eric Newby award | Currency call-up | Hotel winner

November 2000

  • Eye of a navigator

    'Around the World in 80 Years' by Eric Newby, Harper Collins

December 1993

  • Hiking with a donkey in the Cévennes mountains, France.

    Fully booked

    Just as top men in Levi Strauss are said to wake up in San Francisco wondering whether anyone is going to want to buy their jeans any more, so booksellers must have begun to wonder whether the apparently insatiable demand for travel books will suddenly end, never to return.
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