A Secret Country

Informationen zum Autor John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He was a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He twice won British journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He was also voted International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Associated Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he won France's Reporter Sans Frontières, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2003, he received the Sophie Prize for 'thirty years of exposing deception and improving human rights'. He died in December 2023. Klappentext Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama. Zusammenfassung Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama.

Product details

• Authors: John Pilger
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.05.1992
• EAN: 9780099152316
• ISBN: 978-0-09-915231-6
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; History, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Indigenous Peoples, Politics and government, Australasian and Pacific history