Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen wrote: > Forgive my forgetting some vital details here - must be age setting in - but > the author of The Year of Living Dangerously wrote a novel about an > Austrailian photojournalist who disappeared in Cambodia during The War...the > jacket illustration featured a mussett bag, a Leica M with a 35 lens and a > Nikon F with a 105... > > Koch, Highways to a War. I asked Tim Page about the book and he said that he got a letter from Koch just before publication stating that he hoped it was alright that he had based the book loosely on Tim's search for two missing journalists as told in a book by Tim and a documentary film made about him. No offers of money. For those who love jazz, C.J. Koch also wrote a book about the development of the jazz culture in Sidney in the 60s that is very good, too. Can't remember the name. Another good photojournalism and war novel is by Phillip Caputo (brother of Caputo that works for Nat. Geo?) who wrote A Rumor of War and The Horn of Africa, but I can't remember the title. As direct and crystaline as Hemingway, yet as poigant as Summerset Maughn. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com