DANZIGER'S ADVENTURES: From Miami to Kabul.

London: HarperCollins Publishers, Limited, 1992. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. He is a traveller who brings many talents to his journeying, and is is to be hoped that he will take to the road again." So wrote the 'Times Litterary Supplement' about Nick Danziger's remarkable first book, DANZIGER'S TRAVELS, in which he journeyed incognito through Iran, Afghanistan and China. Now we learn what Danziger did next: more extraordinary episodes involving danger, pathos, and comedy as the author swings from rags to riches and back again in some of the most outlandish places on earth. Danziger's assignments bring him into contact with both the unimaginably rich in Miami, Palm Beach and on the QEII, as well as the wretchedly dispossessed in Afghanistan and on the borders between Iraq and Turkey and between Mexico and the U.S.A. Vivid encounters with the designer yuppies and glitterati of New York and California are followed by a photographic commission that brings him face-to-face with a horrific massacre of Kurdish refugees in Turkey--and a narrow escape from death. Returning to Kabul after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, he finds the city under rocket attack by his old friends, the mujahedeen, and sees for himself the pointless destruction and terror occurring on both sides of the forgotten war. He attends the Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral in Tehran, amidst scenes of mass hysteria; goes in search of the Tuareg in Libya, and mingles with the would-be 'wetback' immigrants from Tijuana--some of whom literally dig their way into the United States. Throughout, DANZIGER'S ADVENTURES is full of gripping incidents and colorful encounters, linked by an eye for the bizarre and a profound awareness of our common humanity. Illustrated with 24 pp. of colour and 8 pp.of black-and-white photographs by the author. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.[Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NFBS1