Far and Away : How Travel Can Change the World

Name: Far and Away : How Travel Can Change the World
Brand: Vintage Publishing

Vintage Publishing

Far and AwayHow Travel Can Change the World\nAuthor(s): Andrew Solomon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Vintage\nISBN-13: 9781784700720, 978-1784700720\nSynopsis\nIn 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. We find him on the quest for a rare bird in Zambia in 1998, and in Greenland in 2001 researching widespread depression among the Inuit. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan for the fall of the Taliban. He was brought in for questioning in Qaddafis Libya in 2006. In 2014 he travelled to Myanmar to meet ex-political prisoners as the country fitfully pushed towards freedom. Far and Away tells these and many other stories. With his signature compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities shift when governments change.\n\nA journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon chronicles a lifes travels to the .