Joan Mackenzie reviews Every Second Counts by Charlotte Glennie скачать в хорошем качестве

Joan Mackenzie reviews Every Second Counts by Charlotte Glennie

Hello, I'm Joan and this book is called Every Second Counts by Charlotte Glennie. Charlotte Glennie is a New Zealand journalist whose career has covered many of the most recent, most challenging world events. Things like the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the Boxing Day tsunami, migrant refugee camps and so much more. But first, she had to overcome a terrible accident she had in Croatia when she was backpacking around Europe, and which took months, if not years, to recover from, and is actually a story in itself. In the 2000s, she persuaded Television New Zealand to make her the first Asian correspondent based in Hong Kong. She moved up there and started to live at breakneck speed, moving quickly between countries such as Mongolia, China, Russia, Singapore, North Korea, anywhere there was something going on, she went at breakneck speed. The pace of her life during those years is simply extraordinary. She writes in this book with enormous empathy about the challenges and trials faced by so many people, which most of us could never even begin to imagine. She writes with compassion and extraordinary detail about the things that she saw and the things that were going on in the world that we only read through media headlines. I guess being a journalist, she must have kept really good notes about what happened to her, when and where, and I for one am really glad she did, because this book is a ride alongside recent world events in a way that I had never seen before, and I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it.