Under Development
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Under Development

A journey without maps

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Under Development

A journey without maps

About this book

Armed with a university degree, the Boy Scout's solemn oath and a snakebite kit which he left on the plane, Ian Smillie set out more than 50 years ago to confront ignorance, want and war. He taught at a remote school in Sierra Leone, was an aid administrator in Nigeria during the Biafran War and for a time he knew more about cement than anyone else in Bangladesh. In his travels as a writer, consultant and teacher, he had encounters with Graham Greene, Wole Soyinka, James Baldwin, the Queen and the 'Butcher of Beijing'. He was instrumental in the campaign to halt blood diamonds, and he was the first witness at the war crimes trial of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Smillie's story moves from war-torn Bosnia, the Khyber Pass and a Paul McCartney quest in Moscow, to a just-before-9/11 meeting at the Bin Laden-obsessed CIA headquarters in Langley. This is a memoir about development: personal development, the development of ideas and understanding, rights and justice, war and peace, poverty and prosperity. It's about one of the greatest imperatives of our time: the drive to end global poverty and why, despite exaggerated claims to the contrary, it isn't working. Bill Clinton called one of his books about international development 'insightful' and of another, The Economist said, 'Read Smillie if you want something constructive.'

Information

Publisher
Practical Action Publishing
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781788534123
9781788534130
eBook ISBN
9781788534147
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Global Development Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Praise for this book
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Also by Ian Smillie
  8. Table of Abbreviations
  9. Preface
  10. Prologue
  11. Chapter 1: Getting There
  12. Chapter 2: Sierra Leone
  13. Chapter 3: The Heart Of The Matter
  14. Chapter 4: Nigeria
  15. Chapter 5: My Brilliant Film Career
  16. Chapter 6: Ramblin’ Boy
  17. Chapter 7: The Far Country
  18. Chapter 8: Cement, The Vasa, And The Mary Rose
  19. Chapter 9: Hey Jute
  20. Chapter 10: Among Equals
  21. Chapter 11: Baba And The Maulana
  22. Chapter 12: The Feminine Mystique And Sharia Law
  23. Chapter 13: The Body Count
  24. Chapter 14: Liberation
  25. Chapter 15: The Land Of Lost Content
  26. Chapter 16: Intervals
  27. Chapter 17: The Cold Hand Of Charity
  28. Chapter 18: Pakistan
  29. Chapter 19: Isles Beneath The Wind
  30. Chapter 20: Back In The USSR
  31. Chapter 21: Tiananmen Redux
  32. Chapter 22: Six Ladies From Dortmund
  33. Chapter 23: Fighting Fire With Misfire
  34. Chapter 24: Hard Rocks
  35. Chapter 25: Hard Men
  36. Chapter 26: Hard Time
  37. Chapter 27: The Obsessive Measurement Disorder
  38. Chapter 28: Abed
  39. Chapter 29: Journey Without Maps
  40. Endnotes
  41. Index
  42. Back cover

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