Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms - travel essay, narrative history, autobiography - but at its finest it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This new series, hailed as 'a wonderful idea' by Don DeLillo, both restores to print and introduces for the first time some of the greatest works of the genre. The classic memoir by one of the great British journalists of the twentieth century, a man who earned universal respect not only for his courage in reporting from dangerous places, but for his candour and independence. "Point of Departure" features Cameron's eyewitness accounts of the atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll, the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the war in Korea; and vivid evocations of his encounters with Mao Tse-tung and Winston Churchill.
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‘Deserving reprint’ -- The Herald (Glasgow)
‘Excellent at conveying the flavour of life as a foreign correspondent’ -- Metro Scotland
‘Excellent at conveying the flavour of life as a foreign correspondent’ -- Metro Scotland
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James Cameron was born in London in 1911. He started his career as a journalist in Scotland before travelling the world as a foreign correspondent for a number of newspapers. He was presented with the Granada Award for Foreign Correspondent of the Decade in the 1960s. He died in 1985.
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By Jacam
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James Cameron has been an inspiration to me over many years and this book, along with others I have collected, signposts you to report writing of such style and substance that it makes the present day hacks look one dimensional. His visit to Vietnam neatly sums up his integrity and compassion.With wry understatement, he outs America as being over wrought and over sensitive to what was essentially as country fighting for its right to govern itself in whatever way it chose. You are left with the feeling that Cameron is not anti American but determined to uncover its naked ambition in this most futile of wars. The book is an evocation of a different age when the foreign correspondent actually could make a difference.
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By David Baird
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James Cameron set an example of honesty and integrity that does much to counteract the bad name that journalism often suffers, particularly in this age of celebrity gossip when many practitioners have no right to call themselves "journalists". Cameron had no university degree and had a difficult early life but he rose to become one of the most-respected reporters of his generation. In this book he outlines the painful truth surrounding everything from nuclear testing to waging war. He can be a witty writer but most of all he touches the heart. He is a reporter's reporter. Can there be higher praise than that?
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I wish I had been around to read James Cameron's articles on a regular basis.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in getting a slight history of the 20th century that isn't from a parked political perspective, but does have a sense of right and wrong and will state it without apology.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in getting a slight history of the 20th century that isn't from a parked political perspective, but does have a sense of right and wrong and will state it without apology.
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