Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart (BBC) [Paperback]

Fergal Keane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999 | ISBN-10: 014026289X | ISBN-13: 978-0140262896

Fergal Keane is one of the BBC's best known foreign correspondents. His latest work for Radio 4 was "Letter to Daniel", an emotional message to his newborn son. This work contains a collection of his pieces and includes the "Letter to Daniel" and a similar despatch he wrote to his deceased father. The book also features many of his pieces for "From Our Own Correspondent" and articles written for the "Spectator", the "Guardian" and the "BBC Worldwide" magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Penguin UK (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 014026289X
• ISBN-13: 978-0140262896
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #536,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent journalism with heart, June 22, 2000

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"zolazola" (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart (BBC) (Paperback)

This book is about to reach for your heart. I started reading it because i'm interested in the history of South Africa,but the book is about much more, not only literally. Next to that it handles subjects like the authors experiences in Burma, South Africa, Rwanda and even in his homeland Ireland, it handles the personal feelings and personal experiences of the author. He manages to describe the most important events in his life thus far with a journalistic as well as a personal touch. He also writes about his youth, the birth of his son and his parents. Altogether this book lights a journalists life in a moving, eyeopening way. I recomment this for reading, it's not really hard to read or heavy but gives you a good extra baggage along the way, and touches you.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superlative ......, November 27, 2001

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michael r preston (Cape Town, South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart (BBC) (Paperback)

This is a book written with such sensitivity and honesty that even a reader with no interest in the subject matter could not fail to be enthralled by Keane's narratives.
Add to this the detailed insights into the places and personalities, the touches of humour and pathos, and the inherent reporter's cynicism combined with Keane's Irish wit, and here is a book which I at least could not put down.
A treasure, one of the most moving books I have ever read.
I have been trying to get hold of his book 'The Bondage of Fear' to complete my collection of his works.