Angelina Jolie's: Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Three years ago, award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Here are her memoirs from her journeys to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Ecuador, where she lived and worked and...
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Three years ago, award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Here are her memoirs from her journeys to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Ecuador, where she lived and worked and gave her heart to those who suffer the world's most shattering violence and victimization. Here are her revelations of joy and warmth amid utter destitution...compelling snapshots of courageous and inspiring people for whom survival is their daily workÅ and candid notes from a unique pilgrimage that completely changed the actress's worldview -- and the world within herself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743470230 (0743470230)
ASIN: 743470230
Publish date: October 1st 2003
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Africa,
War,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
Inspirational,
Diary,
Journal
ForewordIntroduction--Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and EcuadorAfterwordMaps
ForewordIntroduction--Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and EcuadorAfterwordMaps
Jolie's journal entries on her visits to many countries as a representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees are, indeed, notes, not a well-constructed travelogue or sociological narrative. For this reason, they serve as an entry point for further explorations, not as a definitive source. To...