As well as his diplomatic postings in Europe and the Far East, John Pedler was a war correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph in Vietnam, and for the Financial Times in Cambodia, a businessman in Mao’s China, and the first Director of the Cambodia Trust. He worked for the Bosnian government during the siege of Sarajevo. He was educated at the Browne and Nicholls School, Cambridge, Mass. USA and the London School of Economics (where he took a subsidiary course in Comparative Religion).
'Here John Pedler takes the broadest of views, ranging from
politics and science to religion and beyond, and paints a picture
of the world as most of us have yet to see it. As a former diplomat
there is almost nowhere he does not know; and as a writer he puts a
thousand stories together and makes elegant and convincing sense of
them.'
*Sir Crispin Tickell*
'In these wise reflections, John Pedler reminds us that the best
diplomats are mavericks, exceptions to the rules of power. Acutely
aware of history and a sense of right and wrong, Pedler exemplifies
an intellectual and moral independence that’s all too rare
today.'
*John Pilger*
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