Rory MacLean Remembers Eric Newby
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.24.06 | 6:38 AM ET
“Magic Bus” author Rory MacLean says he’ll remember Eric Newby’s honest vulnerability, the effervescent vitality of his books and his beautifully trimmed lawn. “Perhaps this confession will strike you as bizarre, even perverse,” he writes in a piece for the Guardian. “But few activities are more conducive to contemplation than pushing a purring mower. On top of that, gardeners share similar ambitions to travel writers. In both cases, nature—be it human or horticultural—is being selected and celebrated and, through the pages of a book or the roller stripes on a freshly-cut lawn, order is made of the chaos. Eric Newby’s love of a series of ancient lawnmowers, and his gardens in Dorset and then Surrey, set an example for us all.” Newby, the author of the travel classic “A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush,” passed away this weekend.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
