Dastgah: Diary of a Head Trip

by Mark Mordue

Australian award-winning journalist Mark Mordue invites you on his world trip that ranges from a Rolling Stones concert in Istanbul to talking with mullahs and junkies in Tehran, and from a cricket match in Calcutta to an S&M bar in New York, in addition to many points in between. Mordue chronicles his year-long global journey with his girlfriend, Lisa Nicol, exploring countries most Americans never see as well as issues of world citizenship in the 21st century. Written in the tradition of literary journalism, Dastgah will take you to all kinds of places, across the world . . . and inside yourself.

Genres: Nonfiction, Travel

316 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Mark Mordue is a writer, journalist and editor working internationally. He won the 2010 Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year. Previously he has received a 1992 Human Rights Media Award for his journalism, as well as the 1994 Women and the Media Award. His travel book Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip was published in both Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2001) and the USA (Hawthorne Books, 2004). Film director Wim Wenders acclaimed it as the first book of its kind to take the road genre “into the 21st century”. Mark was 2001 Asialink Australian Writer-in-Residence at Beijing University and has taught narrative writing and literary journalism at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) over the past decade. He was Guest Editor of the literary journal Meanjin's 'On Rock ‘n’ Roll' issue (November 2006) and recently completed a draft novel for his M.A. in Writing (by Research) at UTS. He is currently developing a major biographical work on Nick Cave for international publication.

Reviews

[Jacinta Fintan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read this twice. read this book if you can. Mark is one of my fave authors. He's from newcastle. The book details his first trip overseas, but its not one of those boring travel stories. Its more a tale of perosnal growth

[Jaime · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been going through an old book journal that I kept in the days before I became addicted to goodreads, and apparently I LOVED this book.
I don't remember reading it at all.