Lost in Transmission by Jonathan Harley

Lost in Transmission by Jonathan Harley

Jonathan Harley knew that becoming the ABC's man in South Asia at the age of only twenty-eight was a dream job. But he'd just fallen in love and wasn't so sure he really wanted it. It took a weekend of soul searching to realise that this would be the experience of a lifetime. From covering India's endearingly over-the-top response to the death of cricketing legend Don Bradman to being the only Australian journalist in Afghanistan on September 11 2001, Lost in Transmission is Harley's exciting, often moving, funny and disarmingly honest account of the three years he spent, lurching from one hair-raising misadventure to the next, reporting from one of the most exotic and, as events unfurled, alarming corners of the planet. Shifting effortlessly between the serious, the sublime and the ridiculous, this is the story of a stranger at something of a loss in an even stranger land - a young man struggling to comprehend and comment on life in a part of the world that never quite makes sense...

Jonathan Harley is a reporter and journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. From 1998 to 2002, he was their New Delhi-based South Asia Correspondent during which time he covered military coups, cricket corruption scandals, earthquakes and a royal family massacre. He also reported from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan (he was in Kabul on 11 Sept 2001) and covered the subsequent war there and in Iraq. He lives in Sydney with his wife, the writer and broadcaster Sarah MacDonald, and daughter.

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ISBN 13	9780553817256
ISBN 10	0553817256
Title	Lost in Transmission
Author	Jonathan Harley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2005-07-04
Number of pages	352
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