by Keith Dalton
Before he was a Foreign Correspondent in the Philippines, Keith Dalton – author of ‘Reinventing Marcos’ – was a journalist with a typewriter in his backpack. For 18 months, he trekked through Southeast Asia until he arrived in the Philippines, stayed 10 years, and became a self-made foreign correspondent. ‘Meandering to Manila’ is his account of that life-changing journey.
BACK COVER:
Keith Dalton was a journalist with foreign correspondent dreams. He had them as a 10-year-old. They never went away.
Dalton was 25 when he crammed a typewriter in his backpack and set off from Australia to Southeast Asia, convinced he could be a self-made foreign correspondent.
Writing as he went, Dalton took buses, trucks, trains, planes, passenger ferries, cargo ships, and canoes. Along the way, he suffered malaria, dysentery, kidney stones, and gout. In Borneo, four days upriver in a canoe, he encountered the children of ex-headhunters who had never seen a white man before. Another time, he saw no other white person for more than month.
It took Dalton 18 months to travel through Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, and Borneo before he reached the Philippines, stayed 10 years, and became the foreign correspondent he had always wanted to be.
‘Meandering to Manila’ is about the places, people, and events that he encountered along the way. It’s a fascinating story about a compelling journey.
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Price: PHP895.00
ISBN: 9781764020978
Author: Keith Dalton
Genre: Memoir
Publisher: Popular Book Club
No. Of Pages: 201
KEITH DALTON
Keith Dalton was for 20 years a journalist and a foreign correspondent. Then, for another 20 years he was a speechwriter, a press secretary, and a communications manager. At 25, he left Australia and spent the next 12 years in Southeast Asia, principally in the Philippines where he reported on the 1986 People Power revolution that overthrew former president Ferdinand E. Marcos. He broadcast for 10 radio stations and wrote for three newspapers.
Radio Stations
BBC – British Broadcasting Corp.
ABC – American Broadcasting Corp.
MBS – Mutual Broadcasting System
Radio Australia
Radio Netherlands
ABC – Australian Broadcasting Corp.
CBC – Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
NPR – National Public Radio
Radio New Zealand
Radio Television Hong Kong
Newspapers
The Times
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian
On returning to Australia, he spent a further three years covering Australian and Pacific news for the BBC, Radio New Zealand, Radio Netherlands, and Radio Television Hong Kong.
For several years, Dalton was a press secretary and a speech writer for the New South Wales government, and speech writer for the NSW premier. He also was the speech writer and corporate communications manager at Westpac bank for three years. He spent 11 years as the Corporate Communications Manager for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia’s multilingual and multicultural national broadcaster.
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