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To Babel and Back (Paperback) Loot Price: R290
Discovery Miles 2 900
To Babel and Back (Paperback): Robert Minhinnick

To Babel and Back (Paperback)

Robert Minhinnick

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Join Robert Minhinnick is on a journey across a radioactive planet. Researching the use of depleted uranium in modern weapons, the writer follows a deadly trail from the uranium mines of the USA into Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Here, he is led into the temples of a deserted Babylon and to what his guides insist is the site of the Tower of Babel, and to the horrors of Iraqi society in the years after the first Gulf War. Interspersed with these 'radioactive writings', which seem part documentary, part dream, are essays on a host of different places. Minhinnick pursues Dante through Florence, sees the world through the eyes of Mr Ogmore from 'Under Milk Wood', and searches for a poem given to him by a murdered schoolgirl. The contemporary world is simultaneously familiar and bizarre, yet when Minhinnick is 'back' in his native Wales, its coastline and valleys are as extraordinary as anything encountered in a Babel that might be myth or alarmingly real.

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Imprint: Seren Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2005
First published: August 2006
Authors: Robert Minhinnick
Dimensions: 211 x 141 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-1-85411-401-3
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
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LSN: 1-85411-401-8
Barcode: 9781854114013

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