Be Brave: The Life of a Pacific Correspondent

‘Some things I’ve seen I can never share.’
From a television journalist on the Pacific frontline comes this candid, startling and intensely engaging memoir.

Barbara Dreaver has covered the Pacific for over 30 years. During this time the vast ocean’s many island nations and territories have gone from being largely ignored by world leaders to the focus of big-power rivalry. And Dreaver has gone from a reporter struggling to get a job to one of the world’s leading Pacific correspondents.
With warmth, humour and astonishing honesty, she takes you inside her gruelling, often crazy life as she and her TV team attempt to stay ahead of power plays, coups, resource grabs, criminal activity and natural disasters across the world’s largest ocean.
Fearless and determined, Dreaver has gained the grudging respect of some leaders and the undying enmity of others. She’s been locked up in Fiji, threatened in Papua New Guinea, detained in Nau...