Advantages: It educates about Islam's roots and the hospitality of the Middle East Disadvantages: I honestly can't think of any
Blood and Sand is a beautifully written autobiography by BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner. Not only does he tell the tale of the terrible attack he and cameraman Simon Cumbers were subjected to in Riyadh, but he tells it with with an incredibly unweakened love for the Middle East.
Born in London, Frank Gardner went on to study Arabic Studies at university, before securing himself a well-paid job in banking with many exclusive benefits. Feeling ... ...travel articles he had written as a student and during his early career, recognising that he wanted to become a journalist, and educate the West about the Arabic world.
Gardner goes on to tell of his struggle to get in to journalism in his thirties, clinging on to every contact and offering himself for graveyard shifts and jobs noone else wanted. Eventually he climbs through the ranks to BBC Security Correspondent (of which he is the first - he ...
Luvlylana 16.05.2008 (24.05.2008)
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