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Flight from Boganville

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June 2007, no. 292

I Wouldn't Start From Here: A Misguided tour of the early 21st century by Andrew Mueller

Picador, $35 pb, 400 pp

Flight from Boganville

by
June 2007, no. 292

Before you settle into this ‘random history of the twenty-first century’, grab an atlas: Andrew Mueller is one well-travelled hack. A fatalist philatelist, he has spent most of his career collecting the types of stamps that adorn passports, not envelopes. In I Wouldn’t Start from Here, Mueller reports on and from some of the most exotic sites of international strife imaginable: Jerusalem, Baghdad, Gaza, Kabul. There are also trips to places of lesser renown, aspirational statelets and breakaway provinces in countries as far-flung as Georgia (Abkhazia). All of which, as his publishers congratulate him in their press release, is ‘[n]ot bad for a guy who originally hails from Wagga Wagga’.

I Wouldn't Start From Here: A Misguided tour of the early 21st century

I Wouldn't Start From Here: A Misguided tour of the early 21st century

by Andrew Mueller

Picador, $35 pb, 400 pp

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