Description
***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***
The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.
'Stunning . . . There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.'
JEREMY PAXMAN
'Fascinating - there's funny stuff, interesting stuff, loads of brilliant stuff really.'
JO BRAND (on BBC 2's Between the Covers)
What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? To have dinner with Attila the Hun? To watch the charge of the Light Brigade? To see the Titanic slide beneath the waves? John Carey's best-selling Faber Book of Reportage draws its eyewitness account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. This is history with the varnish removed.
The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.
About the Author
John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts?and a life of William Golding. He is also the editor of The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571141630
Author Professor John Carey
Format Paperback
Page Count 752
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 745g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 130mm * 50mm
