Meet John Robert Young, acclaimed photojournalist and author. For those who love adventure, travel, intrigue, humour and romance, this is a fascinating read.
The author relates how as a young man he dreamt of travelling the world with a camera. Amidst life’s twists and turns, he finally succeeds.
His subjects are many and varied: war, devastation and hunger, through films, television and fashion to the French Foreign Legion. He is caught up in the world of film stars, producers, directors, along with politicians, a Nobel Prize winner, terrorists and Hitler’s favourite film maker, Leni Riefenstahl. His photographs are beautiful yet powerful, while at times sombre.
This extraordinary story will keep you turning the pages. As Len Deighton, the world-famous spy novelist, says: “John Young’s gripping account of his hazardous and eventful life kept me reading it into the small hours of the morning.”
