Description

• Candid, startling, hugely engaging memoir
• Barbara Dreaver appears nightly on 6pm 1News
• Author has won many awards – and faced death
threats
• Rare unvarnished account of life on the Pacific
frontline
• Major publicity programme
Barbara Dreaver has covered the Pacific for over 30 years.
During this time the vast ocean’s many island nations and
territories have gone from being largely ignored by world
leaders to the focus of big-power rivalry. Dreaver has
gone from a reporter struggling to get a job to one of the
world’s leading Pacific correspondents. With warmth,
humour and astonishing honesty, she takes you inside her
gruelling life as she and her TV team attempt to stay
ahead of power plays, coups, resource grabs, criminal
activity and natural disasters. Fearless and determined,
she reveals what goes on behind the scenes as she faces
her biggest challenges, both personal and professional