A Late Education: Episodes In A Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Alan Moorehead — one of the twentieth century's most celebrated war correspondents and narrative historians — turns his unflinching gaze inward in A Late Education: Episodes in a Life, a memoir that reads less like a conventional autobiography and more like a series of vivid, carefully rendered dispatches from a life lived at full throttle. Spanning his formative years in Australia through his rise to international renown, the book presents a mosaic of defining moments: encounters with extraordinary people, the chaos of wartime Europe, and the gradual, hard-won self-understanding of a man shaped by perpetual motion and acute observation. Moorehead's prose carries the same muscular clarity and evocative precision that distinguished his landmark works Gallipoli and The Blue Nile, here turned to the intimate architecture of personal experience. The episodic structure mirrors the restless, curious intelligence of its author — each chapter a self-contained world, yet all threads weaving together into a portrait of an era as much as a man. For readers who have followed Moorehead across battlefields and along ancient rivers, this memoir offers the tantalising question: what does a witness to history discover when he finally examines himself?
Author: Alan Moorehead
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Alan Moorehead — one of the twentieth century's most celebrated war correspondents and narrative historians — turns his unflinching gaze inward in A Late Education: Episodes in a Life, a memoir that reads less like a conventional autobiography and more like a series of vivid, carefully rendered dispatches from a life lived at full throttle. Spanning his formative years in Australia through his rise to international renown, the book presents a mosaic of defining moments: encounters with extraordinary people, the chaos of wartime Europe, and the gradual, hard-won self-understanding of a man shaped by perpetual motion and acute observation. Moorehead's prose carries the same muscular clarity and evocative precision that distinguished his landmark works Gallipoli and The Blue Nile, here turned to the intimate architecture of personal experience. The episodic structure mirrors the restless, curious intelligence of its author — each chapter a self-contained world, yet all threads weaving together into a portrait of an era as much as a man. For readers who have followed Moorehead across battlefields and along ancient rivers, this memoir offers the tantalising question: what does a witness to history discover when he finally examines himself?