Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Registered by Germanophile of Litchfield, New Hampshire USA on 6/16/2007
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:
"After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Anderson Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the earth. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one step ahead of his past, including the fame surrounding his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic early deaths of his father and older brother. As a reporter, the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from war-torn countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him to avoid having to look closely at the pain and loss that was right in front of him.
But recently, during the course of one extraordinary, tumultous year, it became impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his life, his family's troubled history from the suffering people he met all over the world. From the tsunami in Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq, to the starvation in Niger and ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the devastation that takes place, both physically and emotionally, when the normal order of things is violently ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been in his share of life-threatening situations before -- ducking fire on the streets of war-torn Sarajevo, travelling on his own to famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide in Rwanda - but he had never seen human misery quite like this. Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars, disasters, and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth. " (Description from back of book.)
Purchased for $1 @ library rummage sale for RABCK/release/trade purposes, although I did skim through it first and found it interesting.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:
"After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Anderson Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the earth. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one step ahead of his past, including the fame surrounding his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic early deaths of his father and older brother. As a reporter, the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from war-torn countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him to avoid having to look closely at the pain and loss that was right in front of him.
But recently, during the course of one extraordinary, tumultous year, it became impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his life, his family's troubled history from the suffering people he met all over the world. From the tsunami in Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq, to the starvation in Niger and ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the devastation that takes place, both physically and emotionally, when the normal order of things is violently ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been in his share of life-threatening situations before -- ducking fire on the streets of war-torn Sarajevo, travelling on his own to famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide in Rwanda - but he had never seen human misery quite like this. Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars, disasters, and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth. " (Description from back of book.)
Purchased for $1 @ library rummage sale for RABCK/release/trade purposes, although I did skim through it first and found it interesting.
Journal Entry 2 by Germanophile at J Beaner's cafe, 25 Rt. 101A in Amherst, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, June 28, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (6/28/2007 UTC) at J Beaner's cafe, 25 Rt. 101A in Amherst, New Hampshire USA
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This is a hardcover book, will be hard to miss! Am putting it on a counter @ the back of the store, near the coffee bar. The owner doesn't really want them in the dining room (or so I've been told), FYI.
This is a hardcover book, will be hard to miss! Am putting it on a counter @ the back of the store, near the coffee bar. The owner doesn't really want them in the dining room (or so I've been told), FYI.
