the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan with his friend Hugh Carless, an expedition later chronicled in A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. The voyage included a chance meeting with the English explorer Wilfred Thesiger. From 1964 to 1973, Newby was Travel Editor for The Observer newspaper. Later life and 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 work were profiled in ITV's The South Bank Show in 1994. He made travel films for the BBC, returning to Parma with his wife Wanda in The Travel Show (1994) and visiting one of his favourite cities, Istanbul (1996). Newby's last published book was A Book of Lands and Peoples, which appeared in 2003. He died at age 86 in Guildford, Surrey. Selected bibliography The Last Grain Race (1956) A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) Something Wholesale (1962) Slowly Down the Ganges (1966) Time off in Southern Italy: The Observer Guide to Resorts and Hotels (ed.) (1966) My Favorite Stories of Travel (ed.) (1967) Grain Race: Pictures of Life before the Mast in a Windjammer (1968) Wonders of Britain: A Personal Choice of 480 with Diana Petry (1968) Wonders of Ireland: A Personal Choice of 484 with Diana Petry (1969) Love and War in the Apennines (1971) When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away ("Love and War in the Apennines" 1971 USA edition by Charles Scribner's Sons) The Mitchell Beazley World Atlas of Exploration (1975) Great Ascents: A Narrative History of Mountaineering (1977) The Big Red Train Ride (1978) A Traveller's Life (1982) On the Shores of the Mediterranean (1984) A Book of Travellers' Tales (ed.) (1985) Round Ireland in Low Gear (1987) What the Traveller Saw (1989) A Small Place in Italy (1994) A Merry Dance Around the World: The Best of Eric Newby (1995) Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers (1999) Departures and Arrivals (1999) References Bibliography Cocker, Mark, Loneliness and Time: British Travel Writing in the Twentieth Century, London: Secker and Warburg, and New York: Pantheon, 1992 Newby, Wanda, Peace and War: Growing up in