1261 records matched your query
04263aam a22004578i 4500 001 2DAB46421A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230704010055 008 230305s2023 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023009676 020 $a 0063272245 020 $a 9780063272248 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c LBSOR $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PN5123.F435 $b A3 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230412 100 1 $a Ferguson, Jane, $e author. 245 10 $a NO ORDINARY ASSIGNMENT : $b A MEMOIR / $c Jane Ferguson. 263 $a 2307 264 1 $a New York : $b Mariner Books, $c [2023] 300 $a volumes cm 500 $a 2023/07/11 505 0 $a Prologue : Kabul, August 2021 -- Uncle Desmond got kicked by a cow -- Chicken shit -- The highest point -- Dubai girl -- "Short virgins will never make good war photographers" -- "No openings" -- Cross fire -- "Our correspondent we are not naming for security reasons" -- Homs -- A killing -- Helicopters under a full moon -- A massacre in Cairo -- The scarlet woman award -- Under attack -- Growing basil in Beirut -- No foreign accents -- Auditioning -- Thumbing Humvees in Hell -- A relapse -- Women of war-- A bitter return -- "I will be your leg" -- Ceremonies -- The deal of the century -- "There is not a future for you here" -- Taliban on the march -- The fall. 520 $a "From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war-from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war wascalled the Troubles, bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA crossfire was disguised as a cow kick. Jane developed a penchant for asking questions that cut through this culture of silence, while the unspoken tension in her village exploded into abuse and rage at home. An opportunity to study Arabic in Yemen after college came as a great relief, a ticket to a different, adventurous life-and to the very center of the story. Ferguson has since reported from nearly every war front around the globe-from Yemen and Syria during the Arab Spring, Afghanistan during the fall of Kabul, and Ukraine during Russia's 2022 invasion-but her rise to the highest ranks of journalism has been anything but ordinary. As a scrappy one-woman reporting team, a borrowed camera her only equipment, networks often told her she simply had the wrong accent, even the wrong appearance. Still, her ambition to build a life in journalism on her own terms thrust her into harm's way time and again. While other reporters chased "bang bang shoot 'em up" stories, a different set of questions guided Ferguson's work, ones that gave faces and names to the people experiencing these conflicts. In the face of grave violence and suffering, giving voice to civilian lives seemed a small act of justice, no matter the risks. For fans of Samantha Power, Marie Colvin, and Ariel Levy, Ferguson's bold debut chronicles her unlikely journey from bright, inquisitive child to intrepid war correspondent from the front lines of the most dangerous conflicts and dire humanitarian crises of our time. With an open-hearted humanity we rarely see in conflict stories, No Ordinary Assignment shows what it means to build an authentic career against theodds"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Ferguson, Jane. 650 0 $a Women war correspondents $z Northern Ireland $v Biography. 650 0 $a War $x Press coverage. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Ferguson, Jane. $t No ordinary assignment $d New York : Mariner Books, [2023] $z 9780063272262 $w (DLC) 2023009677 941 $a 11 952 $l TBPD706 $d 20240621010841.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012726.0 952 $l FMPC224 $d 20231226010429.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207020534.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20231206014702.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20231006015034.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20231005013434.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20231004010426.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230902013904.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230802012038.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230704011635.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2DAB46421A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search