Get The Weekenders: Travels In The Heart Of Africa Illustrated By W.F. Deedes Presented As Document

real mixed bag. I almost quit during the first story, which is so horrible it is responsible for the loss of one star all by itself.
On the other hand, the Irvine Welsh story here does not occur in Scotland, uses no dialect, contains no drugs.
. . and is the best thing he's ever written, It's also the longest piece in here, which is good, The piece preceding it is also humorous, But thehere are all because of Welsh, Well, it's cannot really be classified as a travel writing that it pretends to be, Ancora una volta non sono certo che la categoria sia quella giusta, Comunque, sette autori inglesi sono stati inviati, per qualche giorno, a vivere il dramma della guerra civile sudanese.
Ognuno l'ha raccontata a suo modo, i voti dovrebbero andare dalal,: perché non fare i nomi perché inventarsi un nome di un paese inesistente, per raccontare un problema reale: la cruda realtà, l'orrore delle mine, della fame, della sete, delle malattie, delle armi.
. . le armi i bambini venduti come mercenari per sfamare le famiglie, . . una tragedia che non ha interessi economici, e per questo resta nell'ombra, sitelink com/journal/ This incisive, insightful collection is what happens when several writers skilled at their craft and keen to travel are brought to the Sudan and asked to write stories based on the experience.


Tony Hawks, best known to me for his 'Round Ireland With A Fridge' wrote, typically, of his excursion and companions.


Other authors gave us a chilling, gentle ghost story of two boys playing and watching two men assessing a ruined, wardestroyed school.
Or a long journey through the bush with a reluctant taxi man who begins to weep as he realises that he has made the wrong decision, and his passengers have the weapons.
Or we learn how the oil extraction has caused the poisonous snakes to move from the affected part of the country into areas where people and animals live.


This is not a cheerful collection, but it is worth reading to develop an understanding of some of the appalling problems facing this region.
Authors include Victoria Glendenning and Giles Foden author of The Last King Of Scotland who gave their time to create this book sold in aid of charity.
If I recall rightly a charity to benefit was War Child which creates playgrounds in strifetorn towns and cities, so children can play safely.
This is a collection of writing about Sudan published back inwhen a group of authors and journalists visited the wartorn south of the country.
They then wrote inspired by their time there and published it to raise funds and awareness,

Im not sure I can say this book taught me anything more about the political side of the conflict, which still wages on even now.
But to be honest Im more interested in the human aspect, and I feel this book struck a note in that respect.
Ive never read a short story or writing collection especially when its been written by a number of different authors and been blown away by every single piecebut to be honest I wasn't all that excited by any of the pieces in this book.
It started off on a high note with Alex Garlands very short story, but other than that it was a bit bland.
I think its mission is stronger than its individual components, which I suppose is fine in a charity effort, but its not going to end up on my favourites shelf! Im still glad I read it though, as I feel it taught me something.
What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing

talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of Edinburgh and showed him a remote, dangerous village in Africa What would happen if you flew Alex Garland into one of the world's most hazardous war zones And how would Tony Hawks react if you dragged him away from his tennis and asked him to write a song with a Sudanese tribesman With Victoria Glendinning, Andrew O'Hagan, Giles Foden and WF Deedes, these writers have experienced for themselves one of the most beautiful and yet troubled lands in the world The Sudan.
This remarkable collection of short stories and evocative travel writing is their response as diverse and unpredictable as the country itself.
A compilation of short stories written by a pool of renowned British writers who travel to the heart of "Sudan the war zone" Its an interesting idea to get together wellknown current authors and ask that they travel to South Sudan and then write short story pieces.
I found many of them very real well real from what I know after being here onlyweek.
But a lot of the stories are similar, which I suppose is due to them all traveling together.
I ordered this trying to get my hands on more Alex Garland material and found more authors to follow now.


The The Weekenders's goal is to bring a deeper understanding to the civil war in Sudan that has spanned several decades.
Though this is overyears old now and there have been a number of political changes since it was written, the questions it brings up and many of the same and similar scenarios exist there still and in other parts of the globe.
Good for deep thinking and questioning what you thought you knew or how you thought you might make an impact in the world.
What do you get when you invite a handful of Britain's best young writers on a press trip to Southern Sudan Short stories that attempt to grapple stereotypically with Poverty, FirstWorld Apathy and Civil War.
It's a pity this book isn't travel writing the best parts are when the young Britishers' honest and wellwritten reactions to Africa shine out and leave their lame attempts at fictionalizing a complex conflict in the dust.
Why would anyone consider that a travel book Not so sure, . A bit depressing. Maybe eye opening, but then again, . A little cliché! William Francis Bill Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DLJuneAugustwas a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist he is to date the only person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.
Satirical magazine Private Eyes Dear Bill spoof letters from Denis Thatcher, published throughout Maragaret Thatchers years as Prime Minister, were assumed to be addressed to Deedes.
The Eye also based its long running editorial comment, Shome mishtake shurely, on Deedes distinctive slur, According to many sources, Deedes was the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot, protagon William Francis "Bill" Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DLJuneAugustwas a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist he is to date the only person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.
Satirical magazine Private Eye's "Dear Bill" spoof letters from Denis Thatcher, published throughout Maragaret Thatcher's years as Prime Minister, were assumed to be addressed to Deedes.
The Eye also based its long running editorial comment, "Shome mishtake shurely", on Deedes' distinctive slur, According to many sources, Deedes was the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot, protagonist of the satirical novel Scoop.
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