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Gangbare naam: Kremmer, Christopher
Geboortedatum: 1958
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: Australia

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The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year… door Christopher Kremmer

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The carpet wars : from Kabul to Baghdad : a ten… door Christopher Kremmer

A slightly disjointed amble through central Asia, taking in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan. A bunch of not overly connected travel pieces makes "The Carpet Wars" sometimes confuses the reader as to when events happened and the sometimes oblique connections to carpets can make digesting the book hard work. Kremmer makes up for this though with some evocative writing of the areas of central Asia that rarely appears in travel articles.

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Inhaling the Mahatma door Christopher Kremmer

The author was a journalist based in India for many years and covers some memorable moments from his time there, plus his then current visit to India with his Indian wife and family. Kremmer recounts his presence at such important events in Indian history like the scattering of Gandhi's ashes following their discovery, as well as the ruling Congress Party and their then grip on India.

Certainly not the worst travelogue I've read.

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MiaCulpa | May 21, 2019 |

Stalking the Elephant Kings door Christopher Kremmer

This non fiction account of Kremmer's extraordinary quest to establish the fate of the Laos Royal Family is gripping in its own right, but even more astonishing when read alongside the fictionalised account of the same events by Colin Cotterill, in his 'Disco for the Departed'. Kremmer is a fine journalist, but here he seems to channel LeCarre's 'Honorable Schoolboy' at his most reckless. How he survived without being shot or imprisoned - or at least deported - is a mystery. As both Cotterill and Kremmer make clear, this is not a subject that the Laotian authorities care to discuss much. The author's website confirms that this story was subsequently updated by Kremmer and re-issued under the title 'The Bamboo Palace'.… (meer)

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