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Book 2005

Absurdistan

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Publisher
Brand: Harper Collins
Language
English
Published
2005
  • Foreign correspondents
  • Biography
  • Anecdotes
  • Autobiography and memoir
  • Journalism

Award winning foreign correspondent Eric Campbell has been stoned by fundamentalists, captured by US Special Forces, arrested in Serbia and threatened with expulsion from China. He has negotiated dating rituals in Moscow, shared a house with a charismatic mercenary in Kabul and taken up smoking at gunpoint in Kosovo. In 2003 , in Iraq he was injured in a suicide bombing which killed his colleague, cameraman Paul Moran.