Adventures in Correspondentland by Nick Bryant, Random House, $32.95.
For five years, until he hung up his headphones last month, Nick Bryant was the BBC’s man in Australia.
For 11 years prior to his posting Down Under, Bryant roamed the globe as a foreign correspondent.
His reflections on this time as a microphone-wielding witness to history form the backbone of this highly entertaining memoir.
With Bryant as our guide, we roam through the Troubles in Northern Ireland, relive the sensation that was the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, spend time with warlords in Afghanistan and visit Guantanamo Bay.
We revisit the horror of the Boxing Day tsunami, the terror of September 11 and the sideshow of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
And then Bryant gets to Australia — where he casts the kind of insightful eye across our land that only a foreign, professional observer can.
It’s an armchair guide to modern realpolitik, told in an easy-to-digest style. A fast-paced read that gives a human face to the disasters, conflicts and major news events that have defined the last two decades.
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