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Diplomatic Wanderings
From Saigon to the South Seas
By Cordiner, Bill
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-86064-940-0
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2003
Now that Britain has lost its empire, British diplomacy is a rather relaxed and pleasant affair, to judge by this charming but superficial memoir. Cordiner spent 28 years in the British Diplomatic Service, doing stints in war-time Saigon, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Iraq, Antigua and Seattle, finally rising to the post of ambassador to Tonga. Apart from a few misadventures--a brush with the Vietcong, near-suffocation by a mound of Ethiopian coffee, a South Pacific cyclone, nerve-racking encounters with Third World airlines and auto traffic--his career was uneventful. His specialty was t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
