Far Horizons
Unusual Journeys and Strange Encounters from a Travelling Life
$39.32
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2010
Summary
New in paperback, the Sunday Times bestseller in which the celebrated BBC journalist recalls his extraordinary travels before and after the near-fatal attempt on his life.
Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano. Pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster. Picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa. Frank Gardner’s idea of a holiday is not everyone’s. But ever since his student days, the BBC security correspondent has done some epicly hard travel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553819311 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553819313 |
| Author: | Frank Gardner |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
Gardner is a good storyteller…an acute observer, a culturally sensitive interlocutor and a genuinely open-minded traveller…his stories are always revealing, often riotous and sometimes moving
Gardner is a good storyteller…an acute observer, a culturally sensitive interlocutor and a genuinely open-minded traveller…his stories are always revealing, often riotous and sometimes moving * TIME OUT ‘Book of the Week’ *
A bold, life-affirming read * GQ *
An inspiration…to its readers, able-bodied and disabled alike * OBSERVER *
His adventures fly off the page in an entertaining and often charmingly self-deprecating manner * NEWS OF THE WORLD *
His terrific new book…absorbing, amusing… some hair-raisingly brave travelling * SCOTSMAN magazine *
Rollicking. * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
About The Author
Frank Gardner
Frank Gardner
Born in 1961, Frank Gardner has been the BBC’s Security Correspondent since 2002. He holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies.
In 2004, while filming in Saudi Arabia, he was ambushed by terrorists, shot multiple times, and left for dead. He survived and returned to active news reporting within a year. Although paralysed in the legs, he still travels extensively, reporting from Ukraine to Colombia to Saudi Arabia.
Awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism, Frank published his bestselling memoir, Blood and Sand, in 2006. His first novel, the thriller Crisis, which introduced readers to SIS operative Luke Carlton, was a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. The second and third Luke Carlton thrillers, Ultimatum and Outbreak, were also bestsellers, as was the fourth, the Taiwan-set Invasion.
Frank Gardner lives in London.
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