Meandering to Manila

Keith Dalton

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Dalton Books
10 November 2025

Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Media, information & communication industries; Geographical discovery & exploration

Keith Dalton was a journalist with foreign correspondent dreams. He had them as a 10-year-old. They never went away.

Dalton was 25 when he crammed a typewriter in his backpack and set off from Australia to Southeast Asia, convinced he could be a self-made foreign correspondent.

Writing as he went, Dalton took buses, trucks, trains, planes, passenger ferries, cargo ships, and canoes. Along the way, he suffered malaria, dysentery, kidney stones, and gout. Four days upriver in Borneo, he was the first white man ever seen by the children of ex-headhunters. For more than a month he saw no other foreigner.

It took Dalton 18 months to travel through Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, and Borneo before he reached the Philippines, stayed 10 years, and became the foreign correspondent he had always wanted to be.

Meandering to Manila is about the places, people, and events that he encountered along the way. It's a fascinating story about a compelling journey.

By: Keith Dalton
Imprint: Dalton Books
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 191g
ISBN: 9781764020978
ISBN 10: 1764020979
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 10 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Keith was for 20 years a journalist and a foreign correspondent. Then, for another 20 years he was a speechwriter, a press secretary, and a communications manager. At 25, he left Australia and spent the next 12 years in Southeast Asia, principally in the Philippines where he reported for 10 radio stations and three newspapers. Keith reported extensively on the 21-year dictatorship of President Ferdinand E. Marcos which ended in a People Power revolution in 1986. Back in Australia, he spent a further three years covering Australian and Pacific news for four international broadcasters. For 11 years, he was the Corporate Communications Manager for SBS, Australia's multilingual and multicultural national broadcaster.

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Meandering to Manila

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