Author: JOHN CAREY
Title: The Faber Book of Reportage
Description: Faber, 1989. Paperback. Pp: 706. The eye-witness accounts in this book have been chosen from hundreds of memoirs, letters and travel books, as well as newspapers. The time span reaches from ancient Greece - Thucydides' account of Athens stricken by plague - to February 1986 when James Fenton in the Phillipines, joins the crowd rampaging through President Marcos's palace. There are disasters, executions and battles - often seen from unaccustomed angles - such as, a French knight's account of Agincourt, El Alamein from a German armoured car. But peace has its dramas too, as seen from the accounts of the Pilgrim fathers setting foot in the silent forests of America, and Garrick playing Hamlet. ISBN: 9780571141630. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780571141630
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Title: The Faber Book of Reportage
Description: Faber, 1989. Paperback. Pp: 706. The eye-witness accounts in this book have been chosen from hundreds of memoirs, letters and travel books, as well as newspapers. The time span reaches from ancient Greece - Thucydides' account of Athens stricken by plague - to February 1986 when James Fenton in the Phillipines, joins the crowd rampaging through President Marcos's palace. There are disasters, executions and battles - often seen from unaccustomed angles - such as, a French knight's account of Agincourt, El Alamein from a German armoured car. But peace has its dramas too, as seen from the accounts of the Pilgrim fathers setting foot in the silent forests of America, and Garrick playing Hamlet. ISBN: 9780571141630. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780571141630
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1988560
- Book number: 1988560
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