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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Warrior Poets : Guns, Movie-Making and the Wild West of Pakistan
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'On a journey through the remote North West Frontier of Pakistan, Australian Benjamin Gilmour discovered an astonishing culture - "one of strong beliefs and a suspicion of outsiders, a love of Lollywood films and an obsession with making guns". With unstoppable determination, Benjamin decided to return a year later to make a movie about those tribal regions - despite the fact that he had never actually made a film before and that it was illegal and extremely dangerous for him to do so. Warrior Poets is a riveting memoir about Benjamin's journeys to Pakistan and the making of the film.' (Publisher's blurb)

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  • Epigraph:
    Who is the warrior, who is he
    that every man of splendid heart should be?

    'Tis he who conquers fear, whom heaven's dower
    has well endued with valour and with power...

    Who yet, fulfilled wherewith to grasp success,
    can sweetly smile, and is apt to tenderness.

    Khushal Khan Khattak

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Millers Point, Sydney City, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pier 9 , 2008 .
      Extent: 334p.
      Description: map
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: June 2008.
      ISBN: 9781741962048 (pbk.)
    • Millers Point, Sydney City, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pier 9 , 2009 .
      Extent: 336p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: May 2009.
      ISBN: 9781741966510
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Warrior Poets Benjamin Gilmour , 2008 extract autobiography (Warrior Poets : Guns, Movie-Making and the Wild West of Pakistan)
— Appears in: Herding Kites : A Celebration of Australian Writing 2008; (p. 90-96)
form y separately published work icon Son of a Lion Benjamin Gilmour , ( dir. Benjamin Gilmour ) Australia : Carolyn Johnson Films , 2008 Z1523026 2008 single work film/TV In Pakistan’s tribal weapon-making village of Darra Adam Khel, a young Pashtun boy Naz Afridi defies his father’s expectations that he will carry on the family’s business and demands an education instead.
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Works about this Work

Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 May 2009; (p. 26) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the change of book cover for the 2009 edition of Warrior Poets: Guns, Movie-Making and the Wild West of Pakistan.
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 June 2008; (p. 39)
— Review of Warrior Poets : Guns, Movie-Making and the Wild West of Pakistan Benjamin Gilmour , 2008 single work autobiography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 June 2008; (p. 39)
— Review of Warrior Poets : Guns, Movie-Making and the Wild West of Pakistan Benjamin Gilmour , 2008 single work autobiography
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 May 2009; (p. 26) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the change of book cover for the 2009 edition of Warrior Poets: Guns, Movie-Making and the Wild West of Pakistan.
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Last amended 22 Jul 2011 09:01:13
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    Pakistan,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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