Point of Departure (Classics of Reportage S.)
Contributors: Andrew Marr (Foreword)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Granta UK; Granta
Published: April 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781862078246
Subjects: Biography: general; Other prose: 19th century; Places & peoples: general interest; 20th century; 20th Century World History; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Journalism; Personal Memoirs; History / General; Modern - 20th Century
First sentence: IN the immortality stakes, journalism is not a good bet.
Description: Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms - travel essay, narrative history, autobiography - but at its finest it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This new series, hailed as 'a wonderful idea' by Don DeLillo, both restores to print and introduces for the first time some of the greatest works of the genre. The classic memoir by one of the great British journalists of the twentieth century, a man who earned universal respect not only for his courage in reporting from dangerous places, but for his candour and independence. "Point of Departure" features Cameron's eyewitness accounts of the atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll, the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the war in Korea; and vivid evocations of his encounters with Mao Tse-tung and Winston Churchill.