Far Horizons

"Ever since he was a student in his late teens, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner has done some epicly hard travelling in an extraordinary variety of countries, and these immaculately observed, often strange, sometimes downright dangerous experiences will form the backbone of this new book. But of course Far Horizons will also deal with the nature of his relationship with travel and how his yearning for far horizons was so very nearly terminated by the events of four years ago when Islamist gunmen shot him six times at point blank range. Frank survived and, incredibly, since that fateful day and against all the odds, he's found himself looking towards those horizons once more. He's been skiing in the Alps, he's journeyed through jungle in northern Thailand, gone scuba diving in the Red Sea, and is once more reporting from the world's trouble spots, including the Middle East and Afghanistan and this is a man who no longer has the use of his legs Exciting, moving and inspiring, Far Horizon"