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Walkabouts No2 – Tall Tales and Short Stories from a Round World
An afternoon
spent among breakfast cereals at Safeways, a dead camel in Cairo, a Chinese
bookshop in Bangkok, a pot-smoking nun in Iran, a prime minister caught in
a police raid on an African nightclub in Stockholm. Walkabouts in not a
guidebook but a collection of improbable stories from halfway around the world.
The places, the people, the meetings, the stories. We take you with us on
our journey!
Some samples from Walkabouts
“Easy to use hard to refuse”- That’s what Abdul said
to me each time he offered me the packet of Camels for a smoke. We both laughed
and I took another one even though I’d smoked too many already. The desert
was hot an dry and there we were shrouded in a fog of smoke in the backseat
of a taxi heading into the back of beyond. Another one? I felt a bit sick
but what the heck, one more wouldn’t do any harm, and it’s not every day you
go swinging about a taxi with a Bedouin from Saudi Arabia Easy to use, hard
to refuse…He, He.”
Johan Resele
“I cannot come to terms with wearing a shawl
and it begins as soon as Iran Air lands at Mehrabad airport near Teheran. It
slides off and glides away down the boarding ramp. One of the passengers catches
it and I tie a fumbling double knot; the shawl is my passport into Teheran.”
Agneta Larsson
“It’s late afternoon and we’re sitting in a beautiful park where Enver Hoxha
had his summer residence (lots of bunkers among the trees). Andris is philosophising
over the disjointed progress in countries like Albania; there are computers
and computing skills but no electricity in many parts of the country. There
is widespread poverty at the same time that arms smuggling and trafficking
in human beings earns millions of dollars every year. “We meet Europe with
a mobile phone in one hand and a candle in the other, “ he says.
Anki Gundhäll Wood
Facts:
Walkabouts No2, 128 pages, 135 x 170 mm
Adhesive binding, illustrated with pictures in colour and black and white
Published in march 2005
ISBN: 91-8761-412-X
Publisher: Global Reporting AB, Stora Nygatan 26, Box 2014 SE-103 11 Stockholm
Order the book here
A Sea of Changes
The Baltic
States’ struggle for liberation in the late 1980s led to a unique commitment
in Sweden. From the initial relief work grew a broad cooperation that involved
large parts of Swedish society. This important piece of modern history is
portrayed in the book A Sea of Changes – Cooperation Between the Baltic
States and Sweden. In articles, flashbacks, portraits and facts we meet many
of the people involved.
A Sea of Changes – Cooperation between the Baltic States and Sweden has been published by the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, as part of the phasing out of the cooperation programme with the Baltic States. One of the aims of the book is to show the breadth of the cooperation. Another is to utilise the knowledge gained in other parts of Swedish development cooperation.
The book is a collection of newly written essays and articles by Mikael Holmström, Tiina Meri, Juris Kronbergs, Mats Sundgren, Petter Bolme, Agneta Larsson, Mats Andersson, Willand Ringborg, Lars Truedson, Anna Thor, David Isaksson, Marcus Svedberg and Sara Sandberg. The editor is David Isaksson. The book is published in two editions, one Swedish and one English.
Publishing date: April 20 2004. 240 pages. Pictures in colour and b/w. Translation: Dennis Brice.
A Sea of Changes – Cooperation between the Baltic States and Sweden is available in selected bookstores or can be ordered directly from Sida: www.sida.se/publications. Distribution by Strömbergs, e-mail: sida@strd.se, phone: +46-8-779 96 50, fax: +46-8-779 96 10, mail: Sida, c/o Strömberg Distribution, se-120 88 Stockholm, Sweden.