Far and Away
How Travel Can Change the World
by Andrew Solomon
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Pub Date Sep 29 2016 | Archive Date May 18 2017
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Chatto & Windus
Description
In 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. We find him on the quest for a rare bird in Zambia in 1998, and in Greenland in 2001 researching widespread depression among the Inuit. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan for the fall of the Taliban. He was brought in for questioning in Qaddafi’s Libya in 2006. In 2014 he travelled to Myanmar to meet ex-political prisoners as the country fitfully pushed towards freedom. Far and Away tells these and many other stories. With his signature compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities shift when governments change.
A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon chronicles a life’s travels to the nexus of hope, courage, and the uncertainty of lived experience and tracks seismic shifts – cultural, political and spiritual. He takes us on a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences via intimate, deeply moving stories that reveal and revel in our common humanity.
Advance Praise
His voice and eye are always curious, never hurried; his sentences unspool elegantly, and are sharply alive to social cadences and cultural nuance... You can see him exploring and honing the listening habits that led to that book on almost every page here... Solomon lives with his subjects as long as he is able – searching out the dissident artists of China and the Inuit of Greenland, 80% of whom suffer from depression. In this way Solomon builds a picture of the world we have inhabited in the last 25 years, seen from its four corners. – Tim Adams, Observer
Solomon unites human history around the world through his intimate, personal accounts. – Will Coldwell, Guardian
Andrew Solomon is every bit as magnificent a traveler as he is a writer -
in fact, it's difficult at times to determine which is the greater
talent. Thankfully, the reader gets to experience both gifts throughout
the pages of this deeply impressive and profoundly moving collection.
Here is man whose curiosities are vast (politics, art, food, psychology,
anthropology), and whose intellect is beautifully honed, but whose
spirit is humble and whose heart is enormous. You will not only know the
world better after having seen it through Solomon's eyes, you will also
care about it more. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781784740115 |
| PRICE | £25.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 592 |
