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Product details
- ISBN 9780099464990
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Cornerstone
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without government or law, where the only authority comes from a loaded gun. Held at gunpoint by a child soldier, having to watching a baby die of malaria in his arms, the experience profoundly changed the way he saw the world.
John Burnett is a former investigative reporter, and speechwriter for Congressmen in Washington. Getting out of politics, he worked for the US Department of Interior, before spending years as writer/adventurer and considerable time as a professional seaman.
