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Title: Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby, Wanda Newby ISBN: 0-86442-627-5 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: low mileage from Low Gear
Comment: can't help but agree with another reviewer and concur that this book neither inspires nor stimulates, an unexpected experience with Eric Newby's writing. The occasional and unwelcome slide into condescension displayed might well be a reflection of the author's mood. I suspect this might have resulted from an almost unbelievably bad choice of travel timing for a book of this nature. Ireland, in winter, on a bicycle? As gloomy a metereological prospect as the literary result. Try Tony Hawkes' 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' for an infinitely more enjoyable read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Some Gold Nuggets at the end of a lot of Rain
Comment: The author and his wife, sexagenarians both, took four tours of Ireland in one year in the 1980s, mainly by bicycle. The author has no inclination to conceal his rather acerbic personality, so you may find yourself rooting for the trucks early on. But keep reading, there's many a worthwhile nugget awaiting, and it's easy enough to discard the refuse. By page 291, when the author or his editors or the Lonely Planet reprinters get the spelling of "fuchsia" right on the fourth attempt, you will feel that anything is possible. So when the author cuts short his description of the final leg, decides not to undertake a planned trip to Northern Ireland, and leaves the book in its present rather untrim state, you're apt to feel a considerable sadness.
The maps provided by Lonely Planet add value to this edition.
Rating: 1
Summary: A pig in a poke
Comment: I found this book very disappointing. It is neither a travel book or a history book. Eric Newby's positive approach to life and adventure seems to be missing in this book and I found his attitude towards the people, the weather, the condition of B&B's, the roads and the food very condescending. His complaints about his bicycle sounded to me like a bad workman blaming his tools. Even if you have 21 gears you still need the skills to use them. Why oh why does he complain about the weather when he chooses to cycle around the westernmost outpost of Europe in Winter? Want a good cycling book? Then try Miles from Nowhere with a sympathetic author who gets into more serious scrapes and comes out of them with better grace and humor than the Newbys.
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Title: On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby ISBN: 0864426216 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby, Wanda Newby ISBN: 0864426313 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, Evelyn Waugh ISBN: 0864426046 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby ISBN: 0864427689 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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