Unreasonable Behaviour
An Autobiography
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4.8 • 6 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man - like myself, as a matter of fact - for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember, he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death and risk, he seems to be implying quite consciously that by testing his luck each time, he is testing his Maker's indulgence' - John le Carre
'McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about' - The Times
'From the opening...there is hardly a dull sentence: his prose is so lively and uninhibited... An excellent book' - Sunday Telegraph
'Unsparing reminiscences that effectively combine the bittersweet life of a world-class photojournalist with a generous selection of his haunting lifework... A genuinely affecting memoir that reckons the cost and loss involved in making one's way on the cutting edge of conflict' - Kirkus Reviews
'If this was just a book of McCullin's war photographs it would be valuable enough. But it is much more' - Sunday Correspondent
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Legendary British photojournalist McCullin ( Hearts of Darkness ; Beirut: A City in Crisis ) has captured the essence of war on film in the Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia and Afghanistan. His engrossing autobiography includes 94 examples of his powerful images. Typical of his compassionate yet unsparing work are photographs of a Biafran officer lecturing one of his dead soldiers and of an inmate in a Beirut insane asylum carrying a handicapped child to safety. Aided by freelance writer Chester, McCullin recreates his childhood in London's mean streets and tells us how he got his first assignment. The majority of the book, however, evokes the sad, grim and ghastly moments he brought into focus through his viewfinder and the heavy personal price he paid for those pictures: malaria, broken bones, shrapnel wounds, death threats and a traumatic stint in Idi Ami's most sinister prison. Neither sentimentality, self-pity nor self-congratulation soften the harrowing story of McCullin's quest for the perfect war picture. ( Feb. )
Customer Reviews
Unreasonable Behaviour
Men and women return from wars with hideous physical injuries,others have invisible scars , Don removes the cloths that expose what countless conflict zones have caused to disfigure every part of his life. He took me to places I’d heard of and others I wish I’d not . How he has survived is a beyond my logic, I’ve been shot at twice, almost gone over the side of a ravine but for a few feet, survived a car accident; the police said I shouldn’t have survived,buried my baby girl, been divorced and lost all the trappings of success, so I’m a survivor but not in Don’s league. The one conciliation is he has Catherine and their son, so there’s hope for the rest of to find the peaceful life he has out of a life of unimaginable nightmares he experienced; which he shared as best as one can in words in his enlightened work. Dean Robert Boyd