Insight with Andrew Mueller: I Wouldn’t Start from Here

Talk Wednesday 30th July, 2008


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I Wouldn’t Start from Here is the result of Mueller’s curiosity to go to some of the most troubled places on earth. An alternative guidebook to the modern world, with dispatches from Africa, Europe, America and the Middle East his book offers snapshots of civil wars, religious conflicts, terrorism and tyrannical dictatorships. He hangs out with the IRA, is arrested for espionage in Cameroon, goes on night patrol in Basra and has hundreds of enlightening (and less enlightening) encounters with the locals.

Andrew Mueller
was born in Wagga Wagga, Australia, in 1968. He is now a London-based rock critic, travel writer, foreign correspondent and columnist. He contributes to the Guardian, IndependentMonocle, Arena, The New Humanist and The Times, among others.

James Brabazon is an award winning frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has reported in over 60 countries investigating, filming and directing in the world’s most hostile environments.