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On the shores of the Mediterranean

Newby, Eric2011
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'Why don't you start in Naples and go clockwise round the Mediterranean instead of dashing off in all directions like a lunatic?' Fortunately, Eric Newby followed his wife Wanda's advice, and so begins the wonderfully madcap adventure, On the Shores of the Mediterranean, Newby's best work since A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. Beginning during the Newbys' wine harvest in Tuscany, the adventurous but disaster-prone pair follow a path using every form of transportation conceivable (public bus, taxi, foot, bike, boat), from Naples to Venice, along the Adriatic to Greece, Turkey, Jerusalem and North Africa, from sipping wildly extravagant cocktails in San Marco to being cordially invited to Libya by Colonel Gaddafi.
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Author:
Edition:
HarperPress Paperback ed.
Imprint:
London : HarperPress, 2011, c1985.
Collation:
ix, 562 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published: Harvill Press, 1984.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780007367917
Dewey class:
910.91822910.9182
Language:
English
BRN:
163005
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Kathleen Syme Carlton-TravelTRAVEL 910.9182 NEWBAvailable
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