NEWBY, Eric. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. London: Secker and Warburg, 1958. First edition, 8vo (214 x 133mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket (small closed tear to rear panel). - And eight more travel related volumes by Eric Newby, including two signed by the author. Note: having spent seventeen years in the fashion business, Newby decided to leave his job and travel with a friend, Hugh Carless, to an area of Afghanistan so remote that no Englishman had been there for over 60 years. On route they met another travel writer, Wilfred Thesiger, author of 'Arabian Sands', who was disgusted by the amateurishness of the pair (9).