{"product_id":"friendly-fires-robert-pringle-9781950381098","title":"Friendly Fires: Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiplomatic service at its best mixes adventure with duty, bestows education through service, and makes friends out of employees.\u003cbr\u003e On the front cover, Bob is on his first trip to Timbuktu in his capacity as US Ambassador to Mali. With him are S kou, his driver en brousse as well as in the country's capital, Gaoussou, a senior embassy employee who accompanied Bob on official visits all over the country, and Barbara. Those grooves in the sand were, in the late 1980s, the most direct route north, which lay between the Niger, West Africa's greatest river, and the vast Sahara: \"Just stay between the river and the scraggly line of telegraph poles and you will get there,\" we were told. And we did.\u003cbr\u003e The black rhino (below) is a rare and hard to see species. We surprised her, and vice-versa, in one of South Africa's less visited game parks as she was finishing breakfast and we were returning from a visit to the US Consulate in Durban. Our assignment to South Africa, immediately after the end of apartheid, was an unforgettable end to our joint career as a diplomatic couple. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Pringle, Barbara Pringle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950381099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950381098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Piscataqua Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Robert Pringle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44181353890047,"sku":"9781950381098","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5da830f0-1f37-41d2-8971-b1d106d9d3ff.jpg?v=1690259995","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/friendly-fires-robert-pringle-9781950381098","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}