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1975 The World Atlas of Exploration secured his financial future for life. In 1994, he was awarded the CBE and given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Guild of Travel Writers. He was also surprised by Eamonn Andrews and his red book for an episode of This Is Your Life.
Newby’s books were written for easy reading and dotted with self-deprecating humour and, although the quality of his output diminished with age, the quantity did not. Some journalists commented unkindly, but truthfully, that he ‘was written out’, but he could not stop producing works, and his last book, A Book of Lands and Peoples, was published when he was 84. Survived by Wanda and their two children, Eric Newby CBE MC died in Guildford on 20th October 2006.
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