Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places by Eric Campbell
As a foreign correspondent for the ABC, 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 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 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 but an irreverent, rollicking read that takes you into nightclubs as well as war zones, behind the scenes of grassroots revolution and into centres of power.
Paperback | 352 pages
155 x 232 x 26mm | 536g
23 Feb 2005
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Collins
Pymble, NSW, Australia
0732279801
9780732279806
Condition: Good
A secondhand book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minimal scuff marks, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged, with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. Apart from the scuff marks on the cover, book in excellent condition.