DANCING TO THE PRECIPICE: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
by Caroline Moorehead
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0061684414
- ISBN 13
- 9780061684418
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Caroline Moorehead wrote a column on human rights first for The Times and then for the Independent (1980-91) and made a series of TV programmes on human rights for the BBC (1990-2000). She has written the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1998); and has helped to set up a Legal Advice Centre for refugees in Cairo, where she has also started schools and a nursery. Currently she works as a volunteer on the legal team for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, while also continuing to review and write on human rights in many different papers. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 175184
- Title
- DANCING TO THE PRECIPICE: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
- Author
- Caroline Moorehead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0061684414
- ISBN 13
- 9780061684418
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
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