Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid

by Peter Gill

Book Overview

The Ethiopian famine of 25 years ago was the greatest humanitarian disaster of the late 20th century, killing more than 600,000 people before the world took notice. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicenter of the famine in 1984 and he returned at the time of Live Aid to research the definitive account of the disaster, A Year in the Death of Africa.

Now, in Famine and Foreigners, Gill returns to Ethiopia to piece together the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199569843
• ISBN13: 9780199569847
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 8.8"