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  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781864712681
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 452
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Adventures in Correspondentland



The inside story of the dangers, delights and diversions of life as a foreign correspondent.

The inside story of the dangers, delights and diversions of life as a foreign correspondent.

As a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Nick Bryant has reported from the wilds of Afghanistan, Pakistan, London, Washington and, for the past five years, Australia.

Adventures in Correspondentland - his account of these experiences - is part memoir, part travelogue and part polemic. More than anything, however, it is the inside story of the dangers and delights of seeing the world through this unique, sometimes privileged and often strange perspective.

How did Bill Clinton react when, in front of a ballroom of over 2000 people, he had to present the award for 'Journalist of the Year' to the reporter who had discovered the existence of Monica Lewinsky's little blue dress? Why did the media report on the night that Princess Diana was killed in a Paris underpass that she was alive when correspondents knew she was dead? How did Bono help save the Northern Ireland peace process? What were international journalists really saying about Prime Minister Rudd? In Adventures in Correspondentland,

Nick Bryant takes us around the world and back home to Australia, where he has covered events such as the death of Steve Irwin, the national apology to indigenous Australians and the 2011 Queensland floods. In being an Englishman abroad, he gives us a fresh, funny and revealing insight into how the world sees Australia at the start of the twenty-first century.

  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781864712681
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 452
Categories:

About the author

Nick Bryant

During a career spanning almost thirty years, Nick Bryant came to be regarded as one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents and was described as ‘the new Alistair Cooke’. He has been posted in Washington, South Asia, Australia and, most recently, New York, where he covered the Trump years. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly and The New Statesman. He broadcasts regularly on the BBC and ABC. Nick studied history at Cambridge and has a doctorate in American politics from Oxford. He now lives in Sydney with his wife and children. His book, When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present, currently resides on Joe Biden’s bookshelf in the Oval Office.

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Praise for Adventures in Correspondentland

Bryant is that genuine rarity: a Brit who actually understands the United States.

Washington Post

Nick Bryant is 'a highly trained historian and an exceptionally skilled journalist.

Boston Globe

Terrific. A compelling and insightful journey through some of the world's biggest stories of the past 15 years.

Mark Corcoran, ABC's Foreign Correspondent

Tom Switzer, Spectator Australia: ‘Nick Bryant is one of the wittiest, quirkiest and most elegant writers I have published. He's also one of the most scrupulously fair-minded reporters in the business and a gift to the Australian media scene.’

Tom Switzer, Spectator Australia

Bryant has written a highly entertaining account of some of the worlds biggest events, giving an insiders view of the news and how it unfolds - or sometimes doesn't

William Heinemann, Bayside Bulletin