Book
Far and away : reporting from the brink of change : seven continents, twenty-five years
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Scribner, 2016.
Physical Description
xii, 578 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Summary
Essays chronicle the author's activist stint on the Moscow barricades in 1991, his 2002 account of cultural rebirth in post-Taliban Afghanistan, and other stories of profound change.
Contents
- Dispatches from everywhere
- The winter palettes
- Three days in August
- Young Russia's defiant decadence
- Their irony, humor (and art) can save China
- The artists of South Africa: separate, and equal
- Vlady's conquests
- "Don't mess with our cultural patrimony!"
- On each palette, a choice of political colors
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Enchanting Zambia
- Phaly Nuon's three steps
- The open spaces of Mongolia
- Inventing the conversation
- Naked, covered in ram's blood, drinking a Coke, and feeling pretty good
- An awakening after the Taliban
- Museum without walls
- Song of Solomons
- Children of bad memories
- Circle of fire: letter from Libya
- All the food in China
- Outward opulence for inner peace: the Qianlong Garden of Retirement
- Adventures in Antarctica
- When everyone signs
- Rio, city of hope
- In bed with the president of Ghana?
- Gay, Jewish, mentally ill, and a sponsor of gypsies in Romania
- Myanmar's moment
- Lost at the surface.