Gavin Bell (1)
Autore di In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Data di nascita
- ukjent
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- Scotland, UK
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1995)
- Breve biografia
- Gavin Bell is a former foreign correspondent of Reuters and The Times, who has found that travel writing is more fun and safer than reporting on wars and coups d’etat. At the last count, he had reported from more than 70 countries from Antarctica to Zanzibar. His assignments have included the Lebanese civil war, the Iran-Iraq war, a Soviet offensive in Afghanistan, revolutions in Madagascar and Fiji, a nuclear test on a French Pacific atoll, the collapse of apartheid, and the release of Nelson Mandela.
His first book, In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific after Robert Louis Stevenson, won the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book of the Year Award. His latest is Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Travels in South Africa.
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 87
- Popolarità
- #211,168
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 16
Gavin Bell, a hardened and hard-nosed war correspondent, follows his fellow Scot into the realms of the cultures and fables of the Polynesians and mellows - just as RLS did before him - in their extensive and extending humanity.
Truly, they both find a 'paradise', faults and smells notwithstanding. Home is the hunter, home from the hills and the sailor, home from the Southern Seas.
Highly recommended for both prose and insight.… (altro)