Distant Voices
  • Published: 5 July 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099387213
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $42.99
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Distant Voices

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A collection of the highest quality journalism from one of our best long-form writers. Insightful, thought-provoking and vivid.

Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time.

The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger's reporting from East Timor, which he entered secretly in 1993 and where a third of the population has died as a result of Indonesia's genocidal policies. This edition also contains more new material as well as all the original essays - from the myth-making of the Gulf War to the surreal pleasures of Disneyland. Breaking through the consensual silence, Pilger pays tribute to those dissenting voices we are seldom permitted to hear.
  • Published: 5 July 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099387213
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $42.99
Categories:

About the author

John Pilger

John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He has twice won British journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Associated Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has won France's Reporter Sans Frontières, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2003, he received the Sophie Prize for 'thirty years of exposing deception and improving human rights'.

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Praise for Distant Voices

A moral interpretation of world affairs in a cynical age

Independent

Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s... The Truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice

Guardian

Pilger's strength is his gift for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all: he is a photographer using words instead of a camera

Salman Rushdie
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