The second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written, including the letters between Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau written during the ten years before their marriage.
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About the Author:
JAMES BRABAZON is an award-winning frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled in more than sixty countries investigating, filming and directing in the world s most hostile environments. He has written for The Observer and The Sunday Times, appears as a commentator on CNN and the BBC, and lectures on the ethics and practicalities of reporting conflict.
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James Brabazon is an independent writer/producer. This second edition of his acclaimed biography
includes previously uncovered material. A major addition makes use of the letters sent between
Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau, written during the l0 years before their marriage. They throw new light on Schweitzer's personality and his decision to go to Africa. A second major addition makes use of recently revealed documents from the State Department regarding Schweitzer's struggle to stop H-bomb tests, a battle fought with the United States Atomic Energy Commission. (Theology Disgest)
Brabazon, an independent writer and film producer, updates his biography of the humanitarian and physician Albert Schweitzer with new and profoundly revealing letters between him and Helene Bresslau, whom he married after a ten-year correspondence. The letters reveal an intensely secret and unusual relationship, as well as facets of Schweitzer's personality and thinking that he took great trouble to hide from the world. New documents from the State Department regarding his battle with the US Atomic Energy Commission to stop H-bomb tests are also discussed. (Reference and Research Book News)
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- PublisherPenguin Adult HC/TR
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0399114211
- ISBN 13 9780399114212
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages509
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