TY - BOOK AU - Shukman, David TI - Reporting live from the end of the world SN - 9781846688874 U1 - 070.4493337092 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - profile books KW - Television broadcasting of news KW - travel KW - Great Britain KW - Environmental protection--Press coverage KW - television journalists N2 - When frontline BBC news reporter David Shukman switched beat from world affairs to environment in 2003, he feared he might be in for a dull life. He couldn't have been more wrong. His new job has taken him to every corner of the earth: journeying up the fabled North West Passage in the Arctic, chasing after loggers in the Amazon and battling through plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, getting trapped in Siberian blizzards along the way. Reporting Live from the End of the World charts Shukman's extraordinary adventures, in the process providing a fascinating eye-witness account of the state of the planet. Wonderfully written and often very funny, the book will be loved by travel, science or environment readers alike ER -