Driven: A Diplomat`s Auto-Biography
Code No: 21843
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Author: Broinowski, Richard
Published: 2009
Binding: Softcover
No. Pages: 256
Dimensions: 15 x 23
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From Japan to Mexico, Tehran to Vietnam, Australian diplomat Richard Broinowski was `our man` in some of the world`s key hot spots during a distinguished 34-year career. And all through his life he has had an obsession for cars.
His first car, bought as a 16-year-old, was a 1928 canvas-topped two-door, four¬seater Austin Seven `Chummy` - a car in miniature, with a wheelbase of just under two metres and a carburettor that hissed importantly as the car bounced along the road. He dressed up the wheels with fake chrome hubcaps and re-sprayed the car at the Lusteroid factory. This was a time when a full tank of petrol could be bought for pocket money.
There have been 38 cars since, including a Riley 1.5 litre (in Canberra), a Hillman Imp (in Japan, his first diplomatic posting), a Holden Kingswood (in Rangoon) and a 2.8 litre Jag XJB (in Tehran).
In this engaging memoir, Broinowski reveals what it was like to observe and implement Australian foreign policy, intertwining his reflections on foreign postings with reminiscences of a lifelong love of the motorcar.
Richard Broinowski served as an Australian diplomat in Tokyo, Rangoon, Tehran and Manila before becoming Ambassador to Vietnam, South Korea and Mexico, the Central American Republics and Cuba. He took time out from diplomacy in the early 1990s to be General Manager of Radio Australia. He is now an Adjunct Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, and lives in Paddington with Alison, his wife of 45 years. This is Richard`s third book.
Publisher`s Notes:
From Japan to Mexico, Tehran to Vietnam, Australian diplomat Richard Broinowski was `our man` in some of the world`s key hot spots during a distinguished 34-year career. And all through his life he has had an obsession for cars.
His first car, bought as a 16-year-old, was a 1928 canvas-topped two-door, four¬seater Austin Seven `Chummy` - a car in miniature, with a wheelbase of just under two metres and a carburettor that hissed importantly as the car bounced along the road. He dressed up the wheels with fake chrome hubcaps and re-sprayed the car at the Lusteroid factory. This was a time when a full tank of petrol could be bought for pocket money.
There have been 38 cars since, including a Riley 1.5 litre (in Canberra), a Hillman Imp (in Japan, his first diplomatic posting), a Holden Kingswood (in Rangoon) and a 2.8 litre Jag XJB (in Tehran).
In this engaging memoir, Broinowski reveals what it was like to observe and implement Australian foreign policy, intertwining his reflections on foreign postings with reminiscences of a lifelong love of the motorcar.
Richard Broinowski served as an Australian diplomat in Tokyo, Rangoon, Tehran and Manila before becoming Ambassador to Vietnam, South Korea and Mexico, the Central American Republics and Cuba. He took time out from diplomacy in the early 1990s to be General Manager of Radio Australia. He is now an Adjunct Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, and lives in Paddington with Alison, his wife of 45 years. This is Richard`s third book.
