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Free Spirit Pub, 1992-09-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 0.5000 in x 10.9000 in x 8.5000 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket., Free Spirit Pub, 1992-09-01, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, 7/15/1992 12:00:01 A. paperback. Good. 0.4331 in x 8.8976 in x 5.9055 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Free Spirit Publishing, 7/15/1992 12:00:01 A, 2.5, Chronicle Books, 1992-08-01. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A nice hardcover with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation., Chronicle Books, 1992-08-01, 3, Free Spirit Pub, 1992-01-01. paperback. Good. 7x0x9., Free Spirit Pub, 1992-01-01, 2.5, Free Spirit Pub, 1992-12T. paperback. Good. 0.6000 in x 9.2000 in x 7.2000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Free Spirit Pub, 1992-12T, 2.5, Chronicle Books. Good. 8.4 x 1.1 x 10.8 inches. Hardcover. 1997. 224 pages. Spine chipped and faded.<br>By the time he was twenty- two, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied (intermittently) at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan, and the US; fou nded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a ph otojournalist for Reuters news agency, covering the famine and ci vil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of mob violence while on assignment. In a world of rules and regu larity, Eldon was a renegade, a risk-taker, and an adventurer. Bu t, despite all his travels, he knew that the interior landscape i s the only one truly worth exploring, and this is the journey he dedicated himself to recording. His is no ordinary journal; it is an astonishing seventeen-volume collage of photos, drawings, wor ds, maps, clippings, paint, scraps, shards, and trash that reveal s his strange and vivid life. The Journey is the Destination offe rs a selection of pages from these extraordinary journals, at onc e the vision of an artist in his prime and the unrestrained outpo urings of a young man just beginning to live. Editorial Reviews Amazon Review Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the younge st photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, w hich had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop cul ture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held h is art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfu lness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young co uld have this kind of artistic depth and insight. From Library J ournal Photojournalists who risk their lives while on assignment in dangerous circumstances are often unsung heroes. In 1993, Dan Eldon was a 22-year-old Reuters photographer covering the severe famine and strife in Somalia when he was brutally murdered by an enraged mob. In a painful tribute to her son, freelance journalis t Kathy Eldon has assembled and prefaced a somewhat offbeat, scra pbook-type publication containing collages, sketches, photographs , and written ruminations culled from her son's 17 journals. Born in England and raised in Kenya, Eldon comes through as an exuber ant, passionate, handsome youth who was troubled by the world's v iolence and deprivations. He appears to have possessed a fearless spirit, and women were attracted to him. With Eldon prominently featured in an upcoming Turner-produced TV documentary on journal ists at risk and with an exhibition of his work opening in New Yo rk, this book could attract a wider-than-expected audience and is recommended for general collections.?Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago Co pyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review This book ha s been written up almost everywhere, around the world, in local n ewspapers, and international publications. Here are a few of the reviews, each reflecting on the profundity of Dan Eldon's story. By Peter Canby Dan Eldon was only twenty-two when, at the heig ht of conflict in Somalia, he and three other journalists were ch ased down by a mob enraged at a United Nations helicopter attack and stoned to death. The year was 1993. Eldon was among the first to document the famine in Somalia; he had risen rapidly through the ranks of war photographers, with spreads in Time, Newsweek, a nd Stern. But, as The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon shows, he was an artist as well. The son of an English father and an American mother, he grew up in Nairobi, where he b ecame fascinated by the mixture of European and African cultures and learned to speak fluent Swahili. At fifteen, he began recordi ng his life in a series of eclectic, exuberantly collaged journal s, which incorporate everything from his own drawings and paintin gs to stamps, matchbook covers, photographs of his friends, and s elf-portraits. By the time Eldon died, he had compiled seventee n journals, the last of which -- according to his mother, Kathy, who edited the published selection -- consisted, uncharacteristic ally, of his Somalia photographs mounted on plain white paper. El don was a popular figure in Somalia, but he'd become depressed by seeing the Africa he loved crumbling around him. In one of his j ournals he quotes Plato: Only the dead have seen the end of war. Lest the Picture Fade By Joshua Hammer For Kathy Eldon the tri p was the climax of a four-year obsession. On a blazingly hot day , last September, Eldon, her daughter, Amy, a television crew and 40 Somali bodyguards rode through the streets of Mogadishu to th e rubble of a large cinder-block house. Here, on July 12, 1993, a U.N. helicopter fired missiles into a group of suspected aides t o warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid, killing 80 people. Minutes after the attack, Kathy's son, Dan Eldon, 22, and three other foreign j ounalists were cornered by an angry mob and stoned and beaten to death. Now, as mother and daughter approached the killing site to film a documentary, another hostile crowd gathered. They were sc reaming 'Get these foreigners out, we don't want to remember that horrible day', says Kathy Eldon, 51. We piled back into the vehi cles and left in a hurry. She was both shaken and strangely elate d by the experience. There was a curious sense of joy that we'd b een there and seen where he died, she says. Kathy Eldon has not grieved quietly. Over the past four years, she has traveled acro ss three continents--and repeatedly relived her son's horrifying end--in a quest to commemorate his brief, eventful life. She has found an eager audience. Last month Chronicle Books published The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon, a collect ion of vibrant collages created by Dan from the age of 13 until h is death. The book has already sold nearly 30,000 copies, and a s econd printing is being planned. Meanwhile, former Columbia Pictu res president Lisa Henson and Oliver Stone's former partner Janet Yang are developing a feature movie about the last three years o f Dan Eldon's life. Next September Amy Eldon, 23, will appear in a Turner Broadcasting documentary about Dan's career called Dying to Tell the Story. Thousands of teenagers have participated in a Nairobi program founded in 1993 by Dan's father, Michael, called The Depot--Dan Eldon Place of Tomorrow, a sort of Outward Bound- on-the-savanna that teaches leadership skills. Eldon's story, a mix of doomed innocence, gonzo adventure and Third World exotici sm, seems tailored for cinematic mythmaking. Son of a British fat her and an Amencan mother, now divorced, Eldon grew up in Kenya. His charismatic energy and precocious visual talent led him, at 2 0, to the office of Jonathan Clayton, then Reuters' Nairobi burea u chief. He was another affluent white African kid who announced, 'I'm a photographer,' like they all do, Clayton remembers. But h e had a wonderful eye for color and composition, and he was willi ng to learn. Eldon hooked up with the Reuters wire service as a f reelancer, then got his big break after the December 1992 U.S. in tervention in Somalia. Eldon captured vivid images of clan gunmen , starving children, Cobra helicopter gunships and bikini clad Am erican soldiers in Mogadishu. Those pictures ran prominently in U .S. newspapers and magazines, including NEWSWEEK. Kathy Eldon w as at home in Santa Monica, Calif., when she received the news of her son's murder. I sank to the floor and said, 'Somebody help m e. Help me', she remembers. After his violent death, Dan might we ll have faded into obscurity, but his family was determined not t o let that happen. Michael Eldon, a Nairobi businessman, raised f unds in Kenya and abroad to launch The Depot. Kathy, an aspiring film producer, began making the rounds of Hollywood film studios and publishers, often bringing along Dan's 17 bound journals. Pla yful pastiches of newspaper headlines, airline tickets, passport stamps, African coins, maps, condom packages, surrealistic drawin gs and photographs of teenage nymphets, wildlife and Masai warrio rs, the journals reflect both a life of white African privilege a nd a boundless curiosity about the world. The Eldons' crusade h asn't won over everybody. A few of Eldon's colleagues and friends admit to feeling queasy about the relentless celebration of his short life. The Dan Eldon I knew would have been embarrassed by i t, says one Africa-based correspondent who worked closely with hi m. It's over the top. Some are also bothered by the disparity bet ween the tributes lavished on Eldon and the scant attention paid to the three journalists who died alongside him: German photograp her Hansi Krauss of the Associated Press and Kenyans Hos Maina an d Anthony Macharia of Reuters. Kathy Eldon finds such criticism u nfair. Dan had a spirit of adventure and awareness of the world t hat we're trying to communicate to people, she says. The art on d isplay in The Journey is the Destination makes a promising--and p oignant--beginning. Pages Ripped from Life By Liesl Schillinger Just as a botanist presses flowers in a book to trap the color they held when they still lived, The Journey Is the Destination holds a life compressed in its pages. That life vibrates with viv id hues and breathing texture; it is a collage of dewy girlfriend s and Masai tribesmen, of wildebeest and decrepit Land Rovers, of photos, ironic news clippings and journal entries, all of them t ransformed by paint, ink, hair, beads, coins and blood into a tal ismanic journal of an artist's youth. That artist is Dan Eldon, a dashing young Reuters photographer who was born in London, raise d in Kenya, and killed in Somalia at the age of 22, when an angry crowd stoned him to death after a United Nations bombing raid. T he book has been drawn from the 17 visual journals Eldon made bet ween 1984, the year he turned 14, and 1993, the year he died; and its pages were selected by his mother, Kathy, not to mourn his d eath but to celebrate his exuberant, concentrated life. At 22, an age when most of his contemporaries were frolicking in their l ast summer of freedom, the pause between college graduation and t he yoke of the first job, Dan Eldon had been drawn by his conscie nce to go to Somalia, to document the famine, war and lawlessness that prevailed there in 1992 and 1993. He was hardly a hardened newsman; he was a free-spirited boy with a hungry eye for beauty. But in Somalia, he would notice a pretty girl, wrapped in a colo rful cloth, only to see later that both her hands and feet had be en severed by shrapnel. Someone had tossed a grenade in the marke t. The depravity of impersonal deaths came as a shock to him. T his was my first experience with war, he wrote in a book he self- published. Before Somalia, I had only seen two dead bodies in my life. I have now seen hundreds, tossed into ditches like sacks. T he worst things I could not photograph. Only the last few pages o f his journals acknowledge the stark brutality of Somalia; the ot hers preserve a rare adolescence in which imaginative horseplay j ostled with exuberant idealism. For young people who doubt that a life grander than MTV and the mall can be achieved in this age , Eldon's journals prove otherwise. And for kids, and adults, who long for a role model in their own image, an untarnished face th at represents possibility, not pompousness, Eldon stands tall. Th e Journals focus a spyglass on Eldon's life, showing him explorin g the Great Rift Valley with his Kenyan friend Lengai Croze, phot ographing his sister Amy and her lissome friends in absurdist sce narios, and raising money to pay for a heart operation for a sick Kenyan girl. They chronicle his trips to Japan, Russia, America and Europe (during which he acquired a variety of lurid call-girl matchbooks), and his brief stints at a few colleges. They also highlight the relief expedition he initiated to help Mozambiquan refugees in Malawi, an adventure for which he raised $17,000 and mobilized an international team of 12 dazzlingly attractive youn g people, turning the mission into an orgy of youthful philanthro py. Using two rugged cars--a Land Rover that had been nicknamed D eziree after a voluptuous Italian girlfriend, and another called Arabella--Team Deziree embarked on the mission of helping refugee s while recording in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty (of the flesh or otherwise), horror, irony, traces of utopia or H ell. It was, he writes, the Search for clean water in a swamp. Everywhere Eldon's insights, sometimes dark, sometimes irreverent , sometimes just plain funny, scrawl across the page. He got the agony, she got the remedy, he writes across a two-page pastiche o f paint-washed savannah, guinea fowl feathers and crinkled photos of iconic youths. Excised photos of cheetah, a... The power of Dan Eldon's art is a dazzling testament to the way in which he li ved his life. . . Jan Sardi, screenwriter, Shine Wild with sex a nd death, the collection resembles the illuminations of a young B lake. British Esquire About the Author Dan Eldon was born in Lon don in 1970 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. His photographs of Soma lia's brutal famine, published in newspapers worldwide, helped tr igger the world's conscience. Eldon was stoned to death by a Soma li mob reacting against a UN bombing Kathy Eldon is co-producing both a feature film about her son's life and a documentary about journalists who put their lives at risk to tell a story. She liv es in Los Angeles. About the Author Dan Eldon was born in London in 1970 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. His photographs of Somalia 's brutal famine, published in newspapers worldwide, helped trigg er the world's conscience. Eldon was stoned to death by a Somali mob reacting against a UN bombing Kathy Eldon is co-producing bo th a feature film about her son's life and a documentary about jo urnalists who put their lives at risk to tell a story. She lives in Los Angeles. ., Chronicle Books, 1997, 2.5, London, Academy Editions, 1992. 263 pp., ± 150 colour ills. examples of design/work by Alsop, Behnisch, Coates, Himmelblau, Scofidio, Dpmenig, Eisenman, Fisher, Fujii, Gehry, Hadid, Hasegawa, Hejduk, Libeskind, OMA, Starck, and others; Vg condition, London, Academy Editions, 1992, 0, Twenty Third Pubns, 1992-05-01. Paperback. Very Good. A trade paperback in excellent condition, clean with a tight binding and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection.Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation., Twenty Third Pubns, 1992-05-01, 3, Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. 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Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., HarperCollins Publishers, 1992, 2.5, Avon Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 20 oz.; 409 pages; VG+ Avon HC w/ DJ very slight shelf wear name inside o/w as new. HARDCOVER. Rebelliously independent Lady Nicole Bragg Shelton refuses to be constrained by the stifling rules of Victorian England. And now desire has impelled the beautiful heiress toward a shocking liason with Hadrian Braxton-Lowell, Duke of Clayborough. Bound by the dictates of honor and duty to another woman, Hadrian is hocked by Nicole's daring conduct, yet entranced by her fiery free spirit and breathtaking sensuality. Though resolved to making the raven-haired beauty his mistress, he will never agree to wed her. But Nicole is no man's plaything. And she is prepared to risk heartache in order to satisfy her wild, uncompromising passion...and win the dashing Duke's unwavering loyalty and undying love. ., Avon Books, 1992, 3, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-07-15. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-07-15, 2.5, Free Spirit Pub, 1992-09. Paperback. Good., Free Spirit Pub, 1992-09, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-11. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-11, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-12. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-12, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-01-15. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-01-15, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. 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Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992, 2.5, Revealing her own long quest for self-esteem, Gloria Steinem explores what self-esteem is, how crippling a lack of it can be, and how recapturing it can transform our lives. Self-esteem, she believes, is our natural state, a basic human value. But too many of us lose our sense of self-worth earls are especially vulnerable, often turning from free spirits into 'female impersonators' by adolescence. Gloria Steinem tells how, by returning to her childhood self through techniques such as imagery, guided meditation, she discovered the strong, secure person each one of us is born to be. 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Spine chipped and faded.<br>By the time he was twenty- two, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied (intermittently) at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan, and the US; fou nded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a ph otojournalist for Reuters news agency, covering the famine and ci vil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of mob violence while on assignment. In a world of rules and regu larity, Eldon was a renegade, a risk-taker, and an adventurer. Bu t, despite all his travels, he knew that the interior landscape i s the only one truly worth exploring, and this is the journey he dedicated himself to recording. His is no ordinary journal; it is an astonishing seventeen-volume collage of photos, drawings, wor ds, maps, clippings, paint, scraps, shards, and trash that reveal s his strange and vivid life. The Journey is the Destination offe rs a selection of pages from these extraordinary journals, at onc e the vision of an artist in his prime and the unrestrained outpo urings of a young man just beginning to live. Editorial Reviews Amazon Review Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the younge st photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, w hich had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop cul ture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held h is art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfu lness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young co uld have this kind of artistic depth and insight. From Library J ournal Photojournalists who risk their lives while on assignment in dangerous circumstances are often unsung heroes. In 1993, Dan Eldon was a 22-year-old Reuters photographer covering the severe famine and strife in Somalia when he was brutally murdered by an enraged mob. In a painful tribute to her son, freelance journalis t Kathy Eldon has assembled and prefaced a somewhat offbeat, scra pbook-type publication containing collages, sketches, photographs , and written ruminations culled from her son's 17 journals. Born in England and raised in Kenya, Eldon comes through as an exuber ant, passionate, handsome youth who was troubled by the world's v iolence and deprivations. He appears to have possessed a fearless spirit, and women were attracted to him. With Eldon prominently featured in an upcoming Turner-produced TV documentary on journal ists at risk and with an exhibition of his work opening in New Yo rk, this book could attract a wider-than-expected audience and is recommended for general collections.?Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago Co pyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review This book ha s been written up almost everywhere, around the world, in local n ewspapers, and international publications. Here are a few of the reviews, each reflecting on the profundity of Dan Eldon's story. By Peter Canby Dan Eldon was only twenty-two when, at the heig ht of conflict in Somalia, he and three other journalists were ch ased down by a mob enraged at a United Nations helicopter attack and stoned to death. The year was 1993. Eldon was among the first to document the famine in Somalia; he had risen rapidly through the ranks of war photographers, with spreads in Time, Newsweek, a nd Stern. But, as The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon shows, he was an artist as well. The son of an English father and an American mother, he grew up in Nairobi, where he b ecame fascinated by the mixture of European and African cultures and learned to speak fluent Swahili. At fifteen, he began recordi ng his life in a series of eclectic, exuberantly collaged journal s, which incorporate everything from his own drawings and paintin gs to stamps, matchbook covers, photographs of his friends, and s elf-portraits. By the time Eldon died, he had compiled seventee n journals, the last of which -- according to his mother, Kathy, who edited the published selection -- consisted, uncharacteristic ally, of his Somalia photographs mounted on plain white paper. El don was a popular figure in Somalia, but he'd become depressed by seeing the Africa he loved crumbling around him. In one of his j ournals he quotes Plato: Only the dead have seen the end of war. Lest the Picture Fade By Joshua Hammer For Kathy Eldon the tri p was the climax of a four-year obsession. On a blazingly hot day , last September, Eldon, her daughter, Amy, a television crew and 40 Somali bodyguards rode through the streets of Mogadishu to th e rubble of a large cinder-block house. Here, on July 12, 1993, a U.N. helicopter fired missiles into a group of suspected aides t o warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid, killing 80 people. Minutes after the attack, Kathy's son, Dan Eldon, 22, and three other foreign j ounalists were cornered by an angry mob and stoned and beaten to death. Now, as mother and daughter approached the killing site to film a documentary, another hostile crowd gathered. They were sc reaming 'Get these foreigners out, we don't want to remember that horrible day', says Kathy Eldon, 51. We piled back into the vehi cles and left in a hurry. She was both shaken and strangely elate d by the experience. There was a curious sense of joy that we'd b een there and seen where he died, she says. Kathy Eldon has not grieved quietly. Over the past four years, she has traveled acro ss three continents--and repeatedly relived her son's horrifying end--in a quest to commemorate his brief, eventful life. She has found an eager audience. Last month Chronicle Books published The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon, a collect ion of vibrant collages created by Dan from the age of 13 until h is death. The book has already sold nearly 30,000 copies, and a s econd printing is being planned. Meanwhile, former Columbia Pictu res president Lisa Henson and Oliver Stone's former partner Janet Yang are developing a feature movie about the last three years o f Dan Eldon's life. Next September Amy Eldon, 23, will appear in a Turner Broadcasting documentary about Dan's career called Dying to Tell the Story. Thousands of teenagers have participated in a Nairobi program founded in 1993 by Dan's father, Michael, called The Depot--Dan Eldon Place of Tomorrow, a sort of Outward Bound- on-the-savanna that teaches leadership skills. Eldon's story, a mix of doomed innocence, gonzo adventure and Third World exotici sm, seems tailored for cinematic mythmaking. Son of a British fat her and an Amencan mother, now divorced, Eldon grew up in Kenya. His charismatic energy and precocious visual talent led him, at 2 0, to the office of Jonathan Clayton, then Reuters' Nairobi burea u chief. He was another affluent white African kid who announced, 'I'm a photographer,' like they all do, Clayton remembers. But h e had a wonderful eye for color and composition, and he was willi ng to learn. Eldon hooked up with the Reuters wire service as a f reelancer, then got his big break after the December 1992 U.S. in tervention in Somalia. Eldon captured vivid images of clan gunmen , starving children, Cobra helicopter gunships and bikini clad Am erican soldiers in Mogadishu. Those pictures ran prominently in U .S. newspapers and magazines, including NEWSWEEK. Kathy Eldon w as at home in Santa Monica, Calif., when she received the news of her son's murder. I sank to the floor and said, 'Somebody help m e. Help me', she remembers. After his violent death, Dan might we ll have faded into obscurity, but his family was determined not t o let that happen. Michael Eldon, a Nairobi businessman, raised f unds in Kenya and abroad to launch The Depot. Kathy, an aspiring film producer, began making the rounds of Hollywood film studios and publishers, often bringing along Dan's 17 bound journals. Pla yful pastiches of newspaper headlines, airline tickets, passport stamps, African coins, maps, condom packages, surrealistic drawin gs and photographs of teenage nymphets, wildlife and Masai warrio rs, the journals reflect both a life of white African privilege a nd a boundless curiosity about the world. The Eldons' crusade h asn't won over everybody. A few of Eldon's colleagues and friends admit to feeling queasy about the relentless celebration of his short life. The Dan Eldon I knew would have been embarrassed by i t, says one Africa-based correspondent who worked closely with hi m. It's over the top. Some are also bothered by the disparity bet ween the tributes lavished on Eldon and the scant attention paid to the three journalists who died alongside him: German photograp her Hansi Krauss of the Associated Press and Kenyans Hos Maina an d Anthony Macharia of Reuters. Kathy Eldon finds such criticism u nfair. Dan had a spirit of adventure and awareness of the world t hat we're trying to communicate to people, she says. The art on d isplay in The Journey is the Destination makes a promising--and p oignant--beginning. Pages Ripped from Life By Liesl Schillinger Just as a botanist presses flowers in a book to trap the color they held when they still lived, The Journey Is the Destination holds a life compressed in its pages. That life vibrates with viv id hues and breathing texture; it is a collage of dewy girlfriend s and Masai tribesmen, of wildebeest and decrepit Land Rovers, of photos, ironic news clippings and journal entries, all of them t ransformed by paint, ink, hair, beads, coins and blood into a tal ismanic journal of an artist's youth. That artist is Dan Eldon, a dashing young Reuters photographer who was born in London, raise d in Kenya, and killed in Somalia at the age of 22, when an angry crowd stoned him to death after a United Nations bombing raid. T he book has been drawn from the 17 visual journals Eldon made bet ween 1984, the year he turned 14, and 1993, the year he died; and its pages were selected by his mother, Kathy, not to mourn his d eath but to celebrate his exuberant, concentrated life. At 22, an age when most of his contemporaries were frolicking in their l ast summer of freedom, the pause between college graduation and t he yoke of the first job, Dan Eldon had been drawn by his conscie nce to go to Somalia, to document the famine, war and lawlessness that prevailed there in 1992 and 1993. He was hardly a hardened newsman; he was a free-spirited boy with a hungry eye for beauty. But in Somalia, he would notice a pretty girl, wrapped in a colo rful cloth, only to see later that both her hands and feet had be en severed by shrapnel. Someone had tossed a grenade in the marke t. The depravity of impersonal deaths came as a shock to him. T his was my first experience with war, he wrote in a book he self- published. Before Somalia, I had only seen two dead bodies in my life. I have now seen hundreds, tossed into ditches like sacks. T he worst things I could not photograph. Only the last few pages o f his journals acknowledge the stark brutality of Somalia; the ot hers preserve a rare adolescence in which imaginative horseplay j ostled with exuberant idealism. For young people who doubt that a life grander than MTV and the mall can be achieved in this age , Eldon's journals prove otherwise. And for kids, and adults, who long for a role model in their own image, an untarnished face th at represents possibility, not pompousness, Eldon stands tall. Th e Journals focus a spyglass on Eldon's life, showing him explorin g the Great Rift Valley with his Kenyan friend Lengai Croze, phot ographing his sister Amy and her lissome friends in absurdist sce narios, and raising money to pay for a heart operation for a sick Kenyan girl. They chronicle his trips to Japan, Russia, America and Europe (during which he acquired a variety of lurid call-girl matchbooks), and his brief stints at a few colleges. They also highlight the relief expedition he initiated to help Mozambiquan refugees in Malawi, an adventure for which he raised $17,000 and mobilized an international team of 12 dazzlingly attractive youn g people, turning the mission into an orgy of youthful philanthro py. Using two rugged cars--a Land Rover that had been nicknamed D eziree after a voluptuous Italian girlfriend, and another called Arabella--Team Deziree embarked on the mission of helping refugee s while recording in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty (of the flesh or otherwise), horror, irony, traces of utopia or H ell. It was, he writes, the Search for clean water in a swamp. Everywhere Eldon's insights, sometimes dark, sometimes irreverent , sometimes just plain funny, scrawl across the page. He got the agony, she got the remedy, he writes across a two-page pastiche o f paint-washed savannah, guinea fowl feathers and crinkled photos of iconic youths. Excised photos of cheetah, a... The power of Dan Eldon's art is a dazzling testament to the way in which he li ved his life. . . Jan Sardi, screenwriter, Shine Wild with sex a nd death, the collection resembles the illuminations of a young B lake. British Esquire About the Author Dan Eldon was born in Lon don in 1970 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. His photographs of Soma lia's brutal famine, published in newspapers worldwide, helped tr igger the world's conscience. Eldon was stoned to death by a Soma li mob reacting against a UN bombing Kathy Eldon is co-producing both a feature film about her son's life and a documentary about journalists who put their lives at risk to tell a story. She liv es in Los Angeles. About the Author Dan Eldon was born in London in 1970 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. His photographs of Somalia 's brutal famine, published in newspapers worldwide, helped trigg er the world's conscience. Eldon was stoned to death by a Somali mob reacting against a UN bombing Kathy Eldon is co-producing bo th a feature film about her son's life and a documentary about jo urnalists who put their lives at risk to tell a story. She lives in Los Angeles. ., Chronicle Books, 1997, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. 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A trade paperback in excellent condition, clean with a tight binding and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection.Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation., Twenty Third Pubns, 1992-05-01, 3, New York: Hill and Wang. Very Good. No Jacket Very Good. No Jacket Near Fine. No Jacket 8 vo. Book is near fine. Little shelf wear. No soiling or foxing. Clean tight and square. No markings. no crease to spine. . Very Good. Soft cover. Ninth Printing. 1992., Hill and Wang, 1992, 3, Pilgrim Pr, 1992-05-01. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x1. The covers have a few small stains with light shelf wear. The spine remains free of creasing. A previous owner's inscription lies on the half title page. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!, Pilgrim Pr, 1992-05-01, 3, HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. 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Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992, 3, Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Free Spirit Publishing, Incorporated, 1992, 3, Avon Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 20 oz.; 409 pages; VG+ Avon HC w/ DJ very slight shelf wear name inside o/w as new. HARDCOVER. Rebelliously independent Lady Nicole Bragg Shelton refuses to be constrained by the stifling rules of Victorian England. And now desire has impelled the beautiful heiress toward a shocking liason with Hadrian Braxton-Lowell, Duke of Clayborough. Bound by the dictates of honor and duty to another woman, Hadrian is hocked by Nicole's daring conduct, yet entranced by her fiery free spirit and breathtaking sensuality. Though resolved to making the raven-haired beauty his mistress, he will never agree to wed her. But Nicole is no man's plaything. And she is prepared to risk heartache in order to satisfy her wild, uncompromising passion...and win the dashing Duke's unwavering loyalty and undying love. ., Avon Books, 1992, 3, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-11. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-11, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-12. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-12, 2.5, HarperSanFrancisco, 1992-09. Paperback. Used: Good., HarperSanFrancisco, 1992-09, 2.5, Free Spirit Pub, 1992-09. Paperback. Good., Free Spirit Pub, 1992-09, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-08. Paperback. Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-08, 2.5, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-07-15. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-07-15, 2.5, US: Harper San Francisco, 1992. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An art-as-spirituality sourcebook that integrates personal healing and renewal in a context of multicultural awareness, spiritual depth, and creative meditation -- for artists and non-artists alike., Harper San Francisco, 1992, 3, Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-01-15. Paperback. Used: Good., Free Spirit Publishing, 1992-01-15, 2.5, Revealing her own long quest for self-esteem, Gloria Steinem explores what self-esteem is, how crippling a lack of it can be, and how recapturing it can transform our lives. Self-esteem, she believes, is our natural state, a basic human value. But too many of us lose our sense of self-worth earls are especially vulnerable, often turning from free spirits into 'female impersonators' by adolescence. Gloria Steinem tells how, by returning to her childhood self through techniques such as imagery, guided meditation, she discovered the strong, secure person each one of us is born to be. She affirms that anyone can heal the inner child of the past through these and other means, and inspires us with descriptions of people who came to know how valuable they are.This book is in good condition with staining of the edges of pages. The dust jacket is in good condition, with signs of wear and tear such as creasing and fraying along the edges., Little Brown and Co, Boston, 1992, 2.5<

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