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Eric Newby Dies
This is rather sad. Eric Newby, one of the best known travel writers in Great Britain, passed away this weekend. Newby was the author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Slowly Down the Ganges, Great Ascents: A Narrative History of Mountaineering and numerous other travel books. His best-known book was probably "A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush"...which I have to confess I've never read. He also worked as Travel Editor for The Observer. He died of natural causes Friday evening in Southern England. He was 86.
