From an open boat ride down the Ganges (pushing in the water most
of the way) to long-distance cycling through Europe to exploring
the Forbidden City in China, the tales of Eric Newby's travels are
always entertaining in his recollections of highlights from an
eventful life. He transplants the reader to all manner of eclectic
terrain: from early childhood adventures among the shops, streets
and eccentrics inhabiting the dark London suburb of his upbringing,
to an elephant fair in India; from the faded glamour of the Orient
Express to a roughneck settlement of opal miners in Australia where
men carrying large amounts of cash travel armed, but have still
been known to disappear.
Whether he is putting heart and soul into building the perfect
grotto in his Devon garden with his wife and the stonemason,
rambling around a semi-abandoned and despoiled Calabria, or
wrestling with the logistics of baby-rearing, both existing and new
readers will enjoy the exuberance and humor that Departures and
Arrivals has to offer.
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