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Authors: Eric Newby
Otto the Great, 39
Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, 94
Oxus river, 35
Palazzina Cinese, 196
Palazzo Abbatellis, 195
Palermo, 191–6
Papa Doc
see
Duvalier, François
Parc de Prafance, 72
Parma, 31
Parma
, 19
Passchendaele, 94
Peace Hotel, former Cathay Hotel,
Peking, 182
Pearl river, 138
Pedro, Prince, of Portugal, 110
Peking, 183
Peking Hotel, 184
Pena Palace, Sintra, 110–11
Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong, 136
Pera (Beyoglu), 86–8
Pera Palas Hotel, 88
Petra, 97–103
Pianura Padana, prison camp in, 23
Pico Tesorero, 81
Picos de Europa, 81
Piovene, Guido, 192
Plaisance, 177
Pombal, Marquês de, 106
Pommern
, 17
Pool of the Sultan, Jerusalem, 78
Pope, Alexander, 105
Port Victoria, Australia, 18
Port-au-Prince, 169–74
Port-de-Paix, Duc de, 179
Power, John, 121
Praia Grande, 139
Progreso, 141
Quartararo, Riccardo, 195
Queen Elizabeth
, 65–70
Queen Mary
, 65
Queluz Palace, 110
Racoules, 72
Raffaello
, 65
Rainy Lake, 121
Rajasthan, 58
Rivière de l’Artibonite, 176
Rome, 23
Rotterdam
, 65
Round Island, 44–52
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 105
Royal Daffodil
, 62
Royal Sovereign
, 62
Rudolph, 38
Ruwenzori mountains, 93
Ryder, Charles, 65
Sacher Hotel, Vienna, 38
Sagar Island, 59–60
Sam, Guillaume, President of Haiti, 171
Sam, Simon, President of Haiti, 171
Samarkand, 35
San Domenico Palace, 191
Sandheads, 60
Sans Souci, Milot, Haiti, 178
Santa Rosalia, 191
Santander, 81
São Pedro de Sintra, 111
Sassoon, Sir Victor, 182
Scholkonogov, Mr, 33–4
Schweitzer Hôpital, Haiti, 176
Scilly Isles, 43–53
Sea of Marmara, 85–6
Selimiye Barracks, 88
Seraglio Point, 86
Seraglio (TopKapi), 90
Serra de Sintra, 110
Seventh Base Line, 123
Shantung, 188
Sheppey, Kent, 62
shmasans
burning places, 59
Shoeburyness, 61
Sicily, 21, 191–7
Simpson Desert, 161
Singatoka river, Fiji, 150
Sintra, 110
Siwalik Hills, 55, 57
Smallboy, Johnny, 122
Sotres, 82–3
South China Sea, 133
Southend, 61
Sovereign of the Seas
, 19
St Jean du Gard, 72
St Marc, Haiti, 176
St Mary’s Hoo, Kent, 62
St Rose of Lima, 174
St Saviour in Chora
see
Kariye Camii
Stamboul, old city of, 86–7
Star
ferry, 134
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 71–2
Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan, 78–9
Sulemaniye mosque, Istanbul, 88
Summer Palaces, Peking, 187
Supreme Court building, Hong Kong, 135
Sursarit, river of the Gods, 57
Suva, red light district on Viti Levu, 148
Syr Darya river, 36
Szechwan, 188
Tagus river, 107
Tarn river, 73
Tarnon river, 72
Tashkent, 35–6
Tavel, 71
Forêt de, 71
Taveuni, 147
Termez, Russian Uzbekistan, 35
Terry,
Guide to Mexico
, 142
Thirteen Tombs People’s Commune, 189
Tian shou shan hills, 189
Tilbury, 63
Timmins, 121
Ting Ling
see
Wan Li
Tirana, 33–4
Toltecs, 145
TopKapi, 90
Torah, the Law, crowns of the, 79
Towers of the Bell and Drum, 187
Trans-Caspian railway, 36
Trapper, Obadiah, Junior (‘Spike’), 122
Treetops, 94
Tresviso, 82–3
Trieste, 33
Tristan da Cunha, 17
Tunnel de Marquaires, 72
Tzu Hsi, Dowager Empress of China, 186
United States
, 65
Uralsk, 37
Üsküdar, 88–9
Uttar Pradesh, 58
Uxmal, 145
Uzbeks, 35–6
Vale of Hinnom, 78
Valley of the Kidron, 79
Venice, 33
Victoria, city of, 134
Vienna, 38–40
Villa Lampedusa, 196
Villa Palagonia, 197
Vindhyan Ranges, 58
Virgin of the Seven Sorrows, 174
Viti Levu, Fiji, 148
Voghera
see
Iria
Voltaire, François-Marie, 105
Voodooism, 174
Wadi Musa, 97
Wakwayowkastic river, 123
Wan Li, Tomb of, 188
Waterhouse Range, 160
Waugh, Evelyn, 42, 65
Wellesley, Lord, Governor-General of India, 59
West Bengal, 58
Whangpoo river, 183
Whispering Glades, 119
Whistler, Rex, 23
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 78
Yangtze river, 183
yanggona
, 151–2
Yemin-Moshe, 78
Yerebatan Saray, ‘The Buried Place’, 89
Yesterday river, 121, 125
Yildiz palace, 88
Yuan
see
Mongols
Yucatan, 141
Yucatezos, 142
Zagorsk monastery, 37
Zisa, La, 195
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 Shores of the Mediterranean
Round Ireland in Low Gear
Traveller’s Tales
A Merry Dance Around the World
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