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The Faber Book of Reportage
Professor John Carey
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Description for The Faber Book of Reportage
Paperback. What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? To have dinner with Attila the Hun? To watch the charge of the Light Brigade? To see the Titanic slide beneath the waves? This title offers an account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. Editor(s): Carey, John. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 46. Weight in Grams: 802.
***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***
The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.
'Stunning . . . There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.'
JEREMY PAXMAN
'Fascinating - there's funny stuff, interesting stuff, loads of brilliant stuff really.'
JO BRAND (on BBC 2's Between the Covers)
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571141630
SKU
9780571141630
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Professor John Carey
John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts?and a life of William Golding. He is also the editor of The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.
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