Far and Away von Andrew Solomon

Far and Away
How Travel Can Change the World
ISBN/EAN: 9781784700720
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 640 S.
Einband: Paperback
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In 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. With his signature compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities shift when governments change.
Andrew Solomon holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge; is a professor of psychology at Columbia University and President of PEN American Center; and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. His TED talks have been viewed over 12 million times. A dual UK/US national, he lives in London and New York. www.andrewsolomon.com.