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War reporting from foreign lands is an exciting business, but the drama is as likely to involve hostile passport officers and feral dogs as whizzing bullets. In Far Country, Tim Kenny shares his memorable adventures, separated from the events and characters that dominated the headlines of the day. From Berlin to Prague to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Sarajevo, these stories tell what it was really like to be there at the time. Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio correspondent and author

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Timothy Kenny was born in Detroit, the middle child in a family of five children of Irish Catholic parents. His love of travel came from his mother, who knew the place names and locations of every city, lake and township in Michigan. His love of reporting and writing came from his father, a newspaperman who co-authored a book about Beaver Island, Michigan, where the family vacationed, and who died too young at age 52. Kenny's professional good fortune arrived in 1982 after leaving a job with United Press International in Oregon to accept a reporting position in Virginia at a new national newspaper called USA Today. He stayed for eleven years, the last five of which were spent as the national daily's foreign editor, a job that sent him, among other places, on reporting trips throughout Central and Eastern Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall. He later joined the Freedom Forum, the international journalism non-profit, that founded the Newseum, where Kenny organized journalism conferences, training sessions, and seminars throughout Eastern Europe. He has taught college journalism as a Fulbright Scholar in Romania and Azerbaijan, trained broadcasters for a year in Kosovo, and worked in four Central Asian nations, including Afghanistan. Kenny, who has traveled to forty-five countries, is the father of three adult children, Maureen, Deirdre and Michael, and of four grandchildren. He and his wife Susan are raising their daughter, Caitlin, in a small eastern Connecticut town. Kenny is retired from the University of Connecticut, where he taught journalism as an associate professor. He still travels abroad, frequently with his family. He is writing a memoir about older fatherhood and continues to write essays, often about time, memory, and place and how these themes change throughout our lives.

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