ABSURDISTAN A bumpy ride through some of the worlds scariest, weirdest place by Eric Campbell

I just love books by foreign correspondents and this is one of the best ones I have ever read. You may have seen the author Eric Campbell on ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent. Eric drops the bs and has the tenacity to call a shithole a shithole, I love this book. This is a used book in good, read condition: it's a bit worn around the edges, it appears to have been read a few times, pages are nice and clean and aging lightlly. A bit worn but a good reading copy. Owners name inscription on first page. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: An award-winning journalist's gritty and compelling account of life reporting from the edge. As a foreign correspondent for ABC television, Eric Campbell covered Boris Yeltsin's drunken demise in Russia, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and the public madness in Britain following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He's been arrested, drugged, robbed, stoned by the Taliban, threatened with expulsion from China and thrown into a variety of tricky situations - such as dating in Moscow and eating a sheep's head (while hung over) in Afghanistan. In 2003, while covering the war in Iraq, he was wounded in a suicide bombing which killed his cameraman and friend, Paul Moran.

Absurdistan, Eric's first book, documents the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth while juggling life, love, friendship and fatherhood. This is not a standard journalistic memoir: it's an irreverent, rollicking read which takes you into nightclubs as well as war zones, behind the scenes of grassroots revolution, as well as into centres of power.

Book Details

Code: SKU443

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 334

Published: 2005

ISBN: 0732279801

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $11.00