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Claire Bertschinger
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Pages: 290 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 038565801X
Pub: Doubleday
Pub date: 2005-07-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 51109
Reader Reviews:
Moving autobiography (15/15 people found this helpful)
This is a fascinating book that starts with the author's experiences of working in the feeding stations of Ethiopia during the 1980s famine. The choices she had to make in deciding who to take in from the overwhelming mass of starving people proved almost unbearable. Her interview with Michael Buerk for BBC news brought the situation to the world's attention and led to Bob Geldof's fund raising concerts.
She continued to work in a number of conflict zones with the International Red Cross and her work in Afghanistan proved particularly harrowing and dangerous. The intriguing aspect of the book is understanding what motivated and sustained her. There is undoubtedly a spritual search amongst the pages of the book and this ends in an intriguing way.
Highly recommended and deserves to be on the Bestseller lists.
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