15-421: Picador Travel Classics is a series of 17 hard-cover books published by Picador during the 1990s. All of the titles are re-prints of what the publishers thought of as "classic" travel literature . Travel literature scholars Holland and Huggan say it is part of a trend in the late 20th century to canonize the travel literature genre, "This is a series that partly announces
30-711: 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 , directed by Tony Knox , in 1994. In
45-894: A junior officer in the Rajput Regiment of the British Indian Army , he studied for six months of 1941 in Fatehgarh , India, for the Lower Standard Urdu Examination that was required to command Indian troops abroad. After passing the examination he was posted to North Africa. He served in the Black Watch and the Special Boat Section , and was captured during an operation against the coast of Sicily in August 1942. He
60-628: Is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group . Picador was launched in the UK in 1972 by publisher Sonny Mehta as a literary imprint of Pan Books with the aim of publishing outstanding international writing in paperback editions only. In 1990, Picador started publishing its own hardcovers. Picador in
75-833: The Dorland advertising agency until 1938 when, at the age of 18, he apprenticed aboard the Finnish windjammer Moshulu and took part in the " grain race " from Australia to Europe by way of Cape Horn . This voyage was subsequently described in The Last Grain Race and pictorially documented in Learning the Ropes . During the Second World War , Newby was commissioned in the Black Watch in 1940. As
90-608: The Heart of Borneo 1994 X Edith Wharton A Motor-Flight Through France Julian Barnes 1995 III Norman Lewis I Came, I Saw 1994 V Norman Douglas Old Calabria 1994 This book had no volume number on the dust cover VII V. S. Naipaul An Area of Darkness 1995 XIV V. S. Naipaul The Middle Passage 1995 VIII Colin Thubron Among
105-845: The Russians 1995 IX Alexander Kinglake Eothen 1995 VI Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar 1994 This book had no volume number on the dust cover XVII Eric Newby A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Evelyn Waugh 1997 Notes [ edit ] ^ Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan . Tourists with Typewriters , 1998, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0-472-10973-1 - page.205 Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Picador_Travel_Classics&oldid=1242234492 " Categories : Travel books Series of books Picador (imprint) Picador
120-404: The UK continues to publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from around the world, including works by former British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy , Ted Hughes Award -winner Kae Tempest , and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart . Picador has also published commercial bestsellers such as Jessie Burton 's The Miniaturist and Adam Kay 's This is Going to Hurt . In the summer of 2018,
135-999: The US branch of Picador announced that starting in April 2019 it would no longer publish original titles and would focus exclusively on reprinting as trade paperbacks literary works originated by editors elsewhere at Macmillan. Picador authors across the UK and the USA have included Jonathan Franzen , Michael Chabon , Marilynne Robinson , Angela Carter , Thomas Pynchon , Raj Patel , Jon Ronson , Alan Hollinghurst , Graham Swift , John Banville , Patrick McCabe , Tim Winton , Mick Jackson , Colm Toibin , Trezza Azzopardi , Edward St Aubyn , Emma Donoghue , Jim Crace , Sunjeev Sahota , Hanya Yanagihara , Pankaj Mishra , Bret Easton Ellis , Denis Johnson , Sir Salman Rushdie , Cormac McCarthy , and Don Delillo . Eric Newby George Eric Newby CBE MC (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006 )
150-759: The World" (1948) by Cherry Garrard II Robert Byron The Road to Oxiana Bruce Chatwin 1994 XI Jonathan Raban Coasting 1995 XIII Euclides da Cunha Rebellion in the Backlands Samuel Putnam 1995 XV Isabella Lucy Bird The Hawaiian Archipelago 1997 XVI Sybille Bedford A Visit to Don Otavio Bruce Chatwin 1997 XII Gavin Young Slow Boats to China 1995 IV Redmond O'Hanlon Into
165-539: The classic status - the canonicity - of its volumes through their hardback covers, their introductions and their numbering - it is intended to form a library." Series [ edit ] Number Author Title Introduction Notes I Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World Paul Theroux 1994. Includes the "Postscript to the Worst Journey in
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#1732782345344180-486: The war and became a companion on his travels. These experiences were described in his memoir Love and War in the Apennines , which focuses on how he was helped by ordinary Italians. A film, In Love and War , was made in 2001 based on the book, starring Callum Blue as Newby and Barbora Bobuľová as Wanda. He was free until January 1944, when he was recaptured. After the war, he spent 17 years working on and off in
195-640: The women's fashion business, described in the book Something Wholesale (1962). In 1956, he set out to climb Mir Samir in 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. In 1967, Newby and his wife began restoring
210-574: Was an English travel writer . His works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush , The Last Grain Race and A Small Place in Italy . Newby was born in Barnes, London , and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge , London. His father, George, was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers, and his mother, (Minnie) Hilda (née Pomeroy) had been a dress model at Harrods . Newby was educated at St Paul's School ; after leaving school he worked for two years at
225-716: Was awarded the Military Cross in 1946 for his part in the raid. Newby was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp , PG21, at Chieti , a few miles inland from Pescara on the Adriatic coast, and later to PG49 at Fontanellato , near Parma . Escaping with Michael Gilbert and other British prisoners after the Italian Armistice , he was helped to hide in the Apennine countryside by a Slovene anti-fascist woman, Vanda Škof (later Wanda Skof), who married him after
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