death_date death_place children birth_place subject influences influenced nationality birth_date period spouse genre image article_title name occupation
20 october 2006 guildford , surrey 2 -lrb- a son and a daughter -rrb- hammersmith , london india afghanistan , middle east , britain , europe , novelists : evelyn waugh , jerome k. jerome author : william dalrymple british 6 december 1919 1956 - 99 wanda history , travel , non-fiction , eric newby 1919-2006 . jpg eric newby
 eric newby author , travel writer
eric newby

george eric newby cbe mc -lrb- 6 december 1919 -- 20 october 2006 -rrb- was an english travel author .
newby 's best known works include `` a short walk in the hindu kush '' , `` the last grain race '' , and `` round ireland in low gear '' .
