The book has chapters on Australia, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, the Sahel, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey. educates the reader on how fundamental geography is, as one of the prime reasons why in the past, present and future these regions have, do and will shape global politics. did I say explains? I meant to say educates. Writer Tim Marshall in a documentary but engaging style looks at ten regional maps and then in historical, political, economic and most of all geographical detail explains. Geography! A book about geography is not something you see everyday, so I bought it. I recently earned a fair amount of National Book Tokens so went to a superstore selling books to do a splurge on some new books, but after finding 7(!) works of fiction that looked interesting I really struggled to find a final 8th read, so I skedaddled to the non-fiction section and found this book in the top ten bestsellers. He has written for many of the national newspapers including the Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times. In recent years he covered the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.
Tim was in Kosovo to greet the NATO troops on the day they advanced into Pristina.
He spent the majority of the 1999 Kosovo crisis in Belgrade, where he was one of the few western journalists who stayed on to report from one of the main targets of NATO bombing raids. Tim also reported in the field from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990’s. Reporting from Europe, the USA and Asia, Tim became Middle East Correspondent based in Jerusalem. Not a media studies or journalism graduate, in fact not a graduate at all, after a wholly unsuccessful career as a painter and decorator he worked his way through newsroom nightshifts, and unpaid stints as a researcher and runner before eventually securing himself a foothold on the first rung of the broadcasting career ladder.Īfter three years as IRN’s Paris correspondent and extensive work for BBC radio and TV, Tim joined Sky News. Originally from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less traveled. After thirty years’ experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis. Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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