{"name": "Eric Newby", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "George Eric Newby CBE MC (6 December 1919 \u2013 20 October 2006[1]) 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.\r\n\r\nThe ground was like iron with sharp rocks sticking up out of it. We started to blow up our air-beds. ' God, you must be a couple of pansies,' said Thesiger."}, "personal_name": "Eric Newby", "death_date": "2006", "alternate_names": ["Newby Eric.", "ERIC NEWBY", "Eric (EDT) Newby"], "birth_date": "1919", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "29538513", "wikidata": "Q337462", "isni": "0000000114700188", "goodreads": "68509", "lc_naf": "n79124689"}, "key": "/authors/OL335693A", "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T21:48:40.811941"}}