At Home in the World

Pearl, Daniel; Cooper, Helene [Editor]; Pearl, Mariane [Foreword];

ISBN 10: 074324317X / ISBN 13: 9780743243179

Verlag: Free Press, 2002

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 074324317X-3-21801663

Inhaltsangabe:

Offers a collection of fifty of the best stories written by Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Islamic extremists while investigating a story in Pakistan.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Daniel Pearl was named South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Bombay, India, in December 2000. He joined the Journal as a reporter in Atlanta in November 1990 and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1993 to cover transportation. In January 1996 he moved to London, and in February 1998 he began reporting from the Journal's Paris bureau. Mr. Pearl had been a reporter for the North Adams (Mass.) Transcript in 1986, the Springfield, Mass., Union News in 1987 and the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1988, where he won an American Planning Association Award for a five-part series on land use. A Princeton, N.J., native, Mr. Pearl graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in communications. He married Mariane, a French journalist, in 1999. A few months before his abduction on Jan. 23, 2002, the couple discovered she was pregnant. A few days before his abduction, they discovered the child would be a boy.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: At Home in the World
Verlag: Free Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good