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Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge

Door Nick Danziger

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#400816-VF53
Titel
Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge
Auteur
Danziger, Nick
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York etc. : HarperPerennial
Jaar van uitgave
1997
ISBN10
0006382495
ISBN13
9780006382492
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous photographs in b/w
Samenvatting
For the best part of a year, Nick Danziger lived among the homeless and unemployed in many of the ruined manufacturing and so-called "no-go" areas of Britain. This is his social documentary of life in a forgotten section of society in the 1990s.
Nick Danziger began his journey in June 1994, as newspapers and magazines throughout the land commemorated the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings and recalled the Allies' war aims (to "afford assurance that all men in all lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want"). For the best part of a year, he lived among the homeless and unemployed in many of the ruined manufacturing and so-called "no-go" areas of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. With courage and sensitivity, he won the trust
... (Lees verder)of the street children and shared the lives and heard the stories of hundreds of society's outsiders. A powerful and disturbing documentary (with 48 pages of his own photographs) of life in Britain for a forgotten section of society in the mid-1990s, and a tribute to the resilience of individuals faced with overwhelming odds.
Pagina's
356
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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