'Highly entertaining' - The TimesThe second volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. Honest, entertaining, and at times hilarious, A Mad World, My Masters is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places.
Packed full of extraordinary experiences, it includes stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gaddafi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen. This vivid memoir will transport you around the world and take you behind the scenes of life as a journalist on the frontlines.'What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness .
'Highly entertaining' - The TimesThe second volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. Honest, entertaining, and at times hilarious, A Mad World, My Masters is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places.
Packed full of extraordinary experiences, it includes stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gaddafi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen. This vivid memoir will transport you around the world and take you behind the scenes of life as a journalist on the frontlines.'What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness .
