The Walk
ISBN-13: 9781780263946
Contributor(s): Peter Barry
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: New Internationalist
Publication Date: 18-05-2017
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£8.99
About the book
It is 1987, two years after Live Aid and PR expert Adrian Burles, working with charity Africa Assist has a Big Idea that he thinks will keep Ethiopian hunger in the headlines and touch heartstrings (and purse strings) of people in the West. Aided by a nurse who has worked at the famine frontline for many years, he locates a young, malnourished man called Mujtabaa wandering alone in the desert and flies him back to London. The world's media are then invited to witness a skeletal Mujtabaa making a weeklong walk from Heathrow to a rally in Trafalgar Square.