A Secret Country
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:21st May '92
Should be back in stock very soon
In print for over twenty years, this remains one of the best and most revealing portraits of John Pilger's homeland, Australia.
Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama.Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama.
Reminiscent of a sabre-toothed, unexpurgated Dickens -- Robert Carver * New Statesman *
A moving account of the abuse of human rights in Australia, all the more valuable because it is written by an Australian writer -- Graham Greene
Pilger is a first-rate dissident journalist... Presents a harsh narrative of class, race and power; of the oppression and resistance, the betrayal and amnesia, that lie behind the sunny illustions of the Australian self-image -- Robert Hughes
This is a patriotic book in the best sense, written in the belief that Australia deserves not old bromides and stereotypes, but the respect of critical appraisal... A necessary book for those of us who believe in the redeeming power of truth * Daily Telegraph *
Pilger's Australia is so different from the image conveyed abroad by films and TV soap operas, so different indeed from the way many Australians see themselves, as to be another country...but none of it alters one starkly apparent fact - he still loves the place. * Sunday Express *
ISBN: 9780099152316
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm
Weight: 319g
464 pages