I Wouldn't Start from Here: The 21st Century And Where It All Went Wrong

I Wouldn't Start from Here: The 21st Century And Where It All Went Wrong

by Andrew Mueller (Author)

Synopsis

With considerable skill, Mueller skids around the globe from failed state to ravaged warzone to desolate no-man's-land, from Beirut to Basra via Belfast and Bihac to try to unpick why we humans seem so prone to plucking war from the jaws of peace, why so much that can go wrong does go wrong, over and over again, and how and why some conflicts suddenly, quietly, inexplicably seem to find themselves solved. It's a surprisingly sunny book given the mire in which he finds himself. And it is a notably entertaining and eye-opening tour of the world's moral basements in the vein of Holidays in Hell or Emergency Sex.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: Main
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 01 Aug 2008

ISBN 10: 1846271517
ISBN 13: 9781846271519

Media Reviews
'Reporting from the world's plague-spots, Mueller asks the questions the rest of us were far too busy being clever to think of. Think Douglas Adams meets Holidays in Hell.' Michael Bywater 'This book is full of the sort of elemental survival humour and remove-your-own-appendix directions crucial for travel in these absurdist times.' Jonathan Kaplan 'Andrew Mueller is a gung-ho Candide with a taste for places that it is wiser to avoid. IWSFH is graphic, comic, bemused and properly contemptuous of faith and ideology.' Jonathan Meades Mueller's prose is as spectacular as a Taliban attack on LollapaloozaA - P.J. O'Rourke
Author Bio
Born in Australia, ANDREW MUELLER has been based in London for the last 20 years