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Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness
Jennings, Christian
ISBN: 0575062525
Gollancz 2000
8vo hardcover 350pp, b/w illus. good, wear to bottom edge / good d/w with wear to bottom edge. Amazon.co.uk Review: Christian Jennings is not a man to rest on his laurels. Not content with the rigours of the French Foreign Legion (documented in his first book, A Mouthful of Rocks, he flew to Rwanda in August 1994 with a rucksack of provisions, The Day of the Jackal, and a self-confessed ignorance of the country beyond the knowledge that 850,000 people had just been slaughtered in brutal acts of genocide. Also, he had a television producer on her way who wanted to find the people responsible within the five-day span of her trip. Apart from the miraculous completion of that programme, the other thing to emerge from this immersion into the landscape of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, was a fascination with Central Africa that saw Jennings return again and again. He was to report for Sunday Telegraph and Reuters in Rwanda, its sibling-in-horror Burundi, and the former Zaire with fearful bravery, but in the impressive Across the Red River he navigates the territory between reportage and memoir. Cleverly matching his learning curve to the reader's, he moves from his virtual ignorance of Rwanda and its mesh of tragedy to a deeper understanding of the weave and durability of that net, achieved with a flowing and refreshing candour. If there are two lines of war journalism, with writers such as Michael Ignatieff providing a more intellectual overview from the hills, Christian Jennings is on the frontline with souls such as Maggie O'Kane, Eve-Ann Prentice and Anthony Loyd. As with the latter's My War Gone By, I Miss It So, Jennings is able to unbridle his sense of self to stirring effect and show the mundane tedium as well as the brutal tension of reporting from, and surviving in, war. Occasionally angry, more often darkly funny, his book proves an unsettling yet riveting critique of the unimaginable effects of genocide, those who feed off its corpse and the few, like Jennings, who live to open our eyes. --David Vincent nn Book Descriptionn A devastating account of the Central African nightmare, in the tradition of Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English and We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 28052 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Ascent to the Tribes - Pioneering in North Thailand
Kuhn, Isobel
London Overseas Missionary Fellowship 1970 reprint.
small 8vo. Printed wrappers. 278pp. Covers missionary work among the Yao the Lisu natives. The strategy, base camp, exploration, men without a country, the earthern jar, high-water mark. With 2 appendices of progress reports & the Phayao Bible camp. Fascinating primary work on these very isolated hill tribes. Their culture, beliefs, and life style. With keen impressions of the tribesland, her major efforts in 1952-53 and teh challenge. The last chapter is an updaate of the situation in 1967.
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 24193 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Asia Comic
Brandt, Thomas / Hendrayaddy, Henry [illus.]
Verlag, Bad Oldesloe; 1998 First edition.
Illustrated boards. Gift inscription from po on title page. 148 pages, with many caricature drawings, as new. Asia Comic is the place where they all meet: the poorly prepared small / medium-sized Entrepreneurs who have so far slept through any Asian boom, the local partners with their ever-present smile, the smart and pushy consultants, the foreign aid experts hungry for projects, the journalists always on the look-out for human rights angle in a story, and last but not the least, the often-maligned guys in charge of the Asia desk at the Head Office. Asia Comic has a very modest objective: to revolutionize the executive world. In the words of the publisher: "They have no choice. Each and every manager will have to read his first comic now!" Even at the considerable and horrible risk of having to smile every now and again.
Price: $55.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 7022 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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