Lost in Transmission by Jonathan Harley

Jonathan Harley knew that becoming the ABC's man in South Asia at the age of only twenty-eight was a dream job. But he'd just fallen in love and wasn't so sure he really wanted it. It took a weekend of soul searching to realise that this would be the experience of a lifetime.

From covering India's endearingly over-the-top response to the death of cricketing legend Don Bradman to being the only Australian journalist in Afghanistan on September 11 2001, Lost in Transmission is Harley's exciting, often moving, funny and disarmingly honest account of the three years he spent, lurching from one hair-raising misadventure to the next, reporting from one of the most exotic and, as events unfurled, alarming corners of the planet.

Shifting effortlessly between the serious, the sublime and the ridiculous, this is the story of a stranger at something of a loss in an even stranger land - a young man struggling to comprehend and comment on life in a part of the world that never quite makes sense...

ABC
Abdul
Abraham
Afghan
Afghanistan
Ahmed
airport
ask
Australian
beard
Bollywood
Bombay
bombed
border
boys
burqa
camera
cricket
crowd
dabba
Delhi
door
drive
eyes
face
feel
fighting
film
flak jacket
foreign
friends
gear
grab
guy
hand
head
Hindu
hundred
Imran
India
Insh'allah
Irshad
Islamabad
Islamic
Jalalabad
Jalozai
jihad
Jonathan
journalists
Kabul
Kandahar
Kapil Dev
Kashmir
Khurram
kilometres
Lahore
laugh
leave
live
look
lunch
madrassas
Masood
militants
Minister
morning
Mukhtar
Mullah
Muslim
Nawaz Sharif
never
night
Northern Alliance
numbers
Osama bin Laden
Pakistan
Pashtun
Peshawar
radio
realise
refugees
regime
reporter
road
sahib
Sarah
say
scream
seems
sir
sit
smile
Srinagar
stadium
stare
stop
story
streets
Sydney
Taliban
talk
tape
taxi
tea
television
tell
there's
thing
thousand
town
truck
try
TV
visa
waiting
walk
window
women
young