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Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead

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Availability:In StockContributor:Thornton McCamishPublish date:6/1/2017Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Inc.ISBN-13:9781863959339ISBN-10:1863959335UPC:9781863959339Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Modern, Literary Figures, Editors, Journalists, PublishersBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCZ20KGRXT

A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Alan Moorehead.

As a reporter, Moorehead witnessed many of the great historical events of the mid-20th century: the Spanish Civil War and both world wars, Cold War espionage, and decolonisation in Africa. He debated strategy with Churchill and Gandhi, fished with Hemingway, and drank with Graham Greene, Ava Gardner and Truman Capote. As well as being a regular contributor to the New Yorker, in 1956 Moorehead wrote the first significant book about the Gallipoli campaign.

With its countless adventures, its touch of jet-set glamour and its tragic arc, Moorehead's story is a beguiling one. Thornton McCamish tells it as a quest - intimate, perceptive and superbly entertaining. His funny, ardent book reveals an extraordinary Australian and takes its place in a fresh tradition of contemporary biography.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Inc.ISBN-13:9781863959339ISBN-10:1863959335UPC:9781863959339Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Modern, Literary Figures, Editors, Journalists, PublishersBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCZ20KGRXT
McCamish, Thornton: - "Thornton McCamish is a freelance journalist and writer. He was editor of the Big Issue (Australia) magazine from 1996 to 1999. His book Supercargo: A Journey Among Ports (2002) was published by Lonely Planet. Thornton received a 2013 Merlyn Myer Biography stipend to write Our Man Elsewhere - awarded on the strength of his outstanding proposal."
Publisher: Black Inc.

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