Travels with my hat / Christine Osborne ; photographs by the author.
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TextPublisher: Katoomba, NSW : Christine Osborne, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: vi, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of colour plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780992324001Subject(s): Osborne, Christine -- Travel | Photojournalists -- Australia -- Biography | Middle East -- Description and travel | Middle East -- Social life and customs | Asia -- Description and travel | Asia -- Social life and customs | Africa, North -- Description and travel | Africa, North -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 915.604 Summary: Travels with My Hat is the story of how an Australian nurse switched careers to become an award-winning international travel writer and photographer. It is a colourful record of her experiences defined by travel and frequently against all odds. In 1979 she was accredited to the Buckingham Palace press corps to cover Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's historic tour of Arabia. In 1981, she travelled to Iraq, invited to Baghdad by the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein. Her adventures in Iraq, Ethiopia, Egypt, Yemen, Pakistan, Morocco and other exotic places, are rounded off with letters to her mother who had never left Australia.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 267-268).
Travels with My Hat is the story of how an Australian nurse switched careers to become an award-winning international travel writer and photographer. It is a colourful record of her experiences defined by travel and frequently against all odds. In 1979 she was accredited to the Buckingham Palace press corps to cover Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's historic tour of Arabia. In 1981, she travelled to Iraq, invited to Baghdad by the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein. Her adventures in Iraq, Ethiopia, Egypt, Yemen, Pakistan, Morocco and other exotic places, are rounded off with letters to her mother who had never left Australia.
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