- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Potter Style (21 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0307396355
- ISBN-13: 978-0307396358
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 990,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Only Cash Peters would go on such an absurd adventure and capture it so winningly. Beautiful language, great humor."
--Phil Doran, author of "The Reluctant Tuscan"
"In one epic, horrifying, funny lurch across the planet, Cash Peters manages to utterly trash the well-meaning efforts of generations of sensitive, sincere travelers. "Naked in Dangerous Places" is a running riot."
--Tony Cohan, author of "On Mexican Time" and "Mexican Days
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"Great explorers possess bravery, a cast iron stomach and insatiable curiosity about what lies around the next bend. Cash Peters has none of these attributes. But he is very, very funny, and his misadventures around in exotic locales make for the best travel writing I have read in years."
--Peter Allison author of "Whatever You Do, Don't Run
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"Like most travelers, but too few travel writers, Cash Peters understands that nightmares are twice as entertaining as dreams. Especially when they come true. Peters' iconoclastic charm unaccountably fails to seduce South Seas cannibals and Hollywood producers, but proves a winner in this sharp-witted recap of two years in the company of such exotic and dangerous creatures. Someone should make a TV show out of it."
--Chuck Thompson, author of "Smile When You're Lying"
"It takes a clever new hook to grab and maintain my attention when it comes to travel writing. "Naked in Dangerous Places" is fascinating, funny, and endearing."
--Doug Lansky, author of "There's No Toilet Paper...on the Road Less Traveled"
--Phil Doran, author of "The Reluctant Tuscan"
"In one epic, horrifying, funny lurch across the planet, Cash Peters manages to utterly trash the well-meaning efforts of generations of sensitive, sincere travelers. "Naked in Dangerous Places" is a running riot."
--Tony Cohan, author of "On Mexican Time" and "Mexican Days
"
"Great explorers possess bravery, a cast iron stomach and insatiable curiosity about what lies around the next bend. Cash Peters has none of these attributes. But he is very, very funny, and his misadventures around in exotic locales make for the best travel writing I have read in years."
--Peter Allison author of "Whatever You Do, Don't Run
"
"Like most travelers, but too few travel writers, Cash Peters understands that nightmares are twice as entertaining as dreams. Especially when they come true. Peters' iconoclastic charm unaccountably fails to seduce South Seas cannibals and Hollywood producers, but proves a winner in this sharp-witted recap of two years in the company of such exotic and dangerous creatures. Someone should make a TV show out of it."
--Chuck Thompson, author of "Smile When You're Lying"
"It takes a clever new hook to grab and maintain my attention when it comes to travel writing. "Naked in Dangerous Places" is fascinating, funny, and endearing."
--Doug Lansky, author of "There's No Toilet Paper...on the Road Less Traveled"
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Finally, after years as a struggling radio host, Cash Peters has been given his own TV adventure show on a big-time travel network. The idea is simple: “Let’s dump him in an unfamiliar culture in a faraway land with no money and no place to stay, and see what happens.”
Unfortunately, there is one major problem: Cash doesn’t want to go. Not only is he NOT the adventurous type, he is afraid of nearly everything and horribly allergic to the rest.
Bottom line: they’ve given the show to the wrong guy.
Naked in Dangerous Places is the story of one man’s efforts to remain sane in an insane world. Told with wit and shameless honesty, it documents a yearlong journey through exotic lands, from Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, as Cash drops in on fascinating cultures, eating, drinking, even sleeping in cow-dung huts with the locals, and eventually proving the truth of the old saying “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Though, to be honest, killing you is more likely.
Unfortunately, there is one major problem: Cash doesn’t want to go. Not only is he NOT the adventurous type, he is afraid of nearly everything and horribly allergic to the rest.
Bottom line: they’ve given the show to the wrong guy.
Naked in Dangerous Places is the story of one man’s efforts to remain sane in an insane world. Told with wit and shameless honesty, it documents a yearlong journey through exotic lands, from Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, as Cash drops in on fascinating cultures, eating, drinking, even sleeping in cow-dung huts with the locals, and eventually proving the truth of the old saying “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Though, to be honest, killing you is more likely.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bankers, politicians - you thought they were dodgy, just wait till you hear what the makers of TV travel programmes get up to. A glorious story of one man's journey across the world, shackled to a bonkers programme format. If you've read 'Gullible's Travels' you will know what to expect: terrific writing, hilarious observations and unexpected moments of pathos and sensitivity. Great stuff.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Hilarious/Laugh Out Loud Funny/The Writing Is Simply Superb !!!
8 Sep 2009
Format:Paperback
Having read my first travel book recently & enjoyed the venture, I decided to surf amazon for some travel treasures. I wanted adventure/comedy & a twisted writer. There were a likely few candidates but I selected Naked because of the plot: a not so adventurous fraidy cat allergic anti hero doing a reality T.V. show traveling into dangerous places where this "host" proceeds to bum off humanity's good will - playing, touristing, dining & slumbering away between commercials.
So page one: Action/Plane is going down into jungle. Cut to page 2: action continues/ writing becomes surprisingly, superb, in fact - OUTSTANDING! Cut to page 3: HILARIOUS !!! LOL Funny. I'am hooked!
He describes the jungle island of Tanna as a mysterious paw print of brooding jungle fringed with misty beaches and rippling banks of submerged coral that fan out from the shorelines like frilled cuffs, ... Or a chicken that has been inhumanely guantanamoed into a space no bigger than a cookie jar... or that darkness in the jungle falls faster than a collapsing highrise. These descriptions are many times so on key tey are just...funny, like in what a bouzouki is: Played correctly, it sounds like a grand piano being thrown down two flights of stairs. Or his characterizations: He's a slight, round-headed man with the permanent strained expression on his face of someone who's expecting a balloon to be popped close by his ear at any second/he has a fuzzy ginger beard that looks like he fished a handful of cat hairs out from down the back of his sofa and glued them on ... Or a reply from a secretary: a Yes sir, so chilly I was able to see my own breath. Or his sarcastic wit that cuts to the quick: he carried himself with an air of easy wealth, and none of that appallingly obnoxious swagger sported by the nouveaux riche back in Hollywood. In Africa he talks about the livestock: Skinniest damned cows I've ever laid eyes on. And the goats are almost two-dimensional. Africa was also where wealth is defined by the number of cattle he owns, and a woman is considered to be worth three cows. So, let me see... that's five wives...divided by...three plus four...carry the one...that means Wilson is worth about fifeen head of cattle. My God, the man's a bullionaire!
As you travel with Cash Peters and crew you'll be entertained and of course learn about reality T.V.'s REAL side. A great time is had but Cash brings more to the table than great humor, writing & story. There is method to his madness, and a deeper meaning comes into play as the story draws to a close.
I'am looking forward to more of his fine work.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!
So page one: Action/Plane is going down into jungle. Cut to page 2: action continues/ writing becomes surprisingly, superb, in fact - OUTSTANDING! Cut to page 3: HILARIOUS !!! LOL Funny. I'am hooked!
He describes the jungle island of Tanna as a mysterious paw print of brooding jungle fringed with misty beaches and rippling banks of submerged coral that fan out from the shorelines like frilled cuffs, ... Or a chicken that has been inhumanely guantanamoed into a space no bigger than a cookie jar... or that darkness in the jungle falls faster than a collapsing highrise. These descriptions are many times so on key tey are just...funny, like in what a bouzouki is: Played correctly, it sounds like a grand piano being thrown down two flights of stairs. Or his characterizations: He's a slight, round-headed man with the permanent strained expression on his face of someone who's expecting a balloon to be popped close by his ear at any second/he has a fuzzy ginger beard that looks like he fished a handful of cat hairs out from down the back of his sofa and glued them on ... Or a reply from a secretary: a Yes sir, so chilly I was able to see my own breath. Or his sarcastic wit that cuts to the quick: he carried himself with an air of easy wealth, and none of that appallingly obnoxious swagger sported by the nouveaux riche back in Hollywood. In Africa he talks about the livestock: Skinniest damned cows I've ever laid eyes on. And the goats are almost two-dimensional. Africa was also where wealth is defined by the number of cattle he owns, and a woman is considered to be worth three cows. So, let me see... that's five wives...divided by...three plus four...carry the one...that means Wilson is worth about fifeen head of cattle. My God, the man's a bullionaire!
As you travel with Cash Peters and crew you'll be entertained and of course learn about reality T.V.'s REAL side. A great time is had but Cash brings more to the table than great humor, writing & story. There is method to his madness, and a deeper meaning comes into play as the story draws to a close.
I'am looking forward to more of his fine work.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Much more than a Travel book
12 July 2009
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Being a fan of travel books generally, I enjoyed 'Naked in Dangerous Places' so much more than others I have read. Cash Peters gives you an insight into what places as diverse as Dubai, Cambodia, Morocco and Alaska are like for the independent traveller. The link between locations is the TV show 'Stranded' which Cash presented and this adds another dimension to the book. Parts of it are very funny and the irony of the scene where he really is 'stranded'at Heathrow airport is not lost on the reader. I loved this book so much, I went and read 'Gullibles Travels' again, an earlier book of his. Both are perfect holiday reading!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A hoot
20 Jun 2009
Format:Paperback
Good travel books are hard to find. This one is a must. Cash Peters is a hoot, as he shares his behind-the-scenes look at how television programs are born and die. He casts a very funny and canny eye on exotic places and memorable people while sharing his often sensitive world view. Best of all, Mr. Peters can write!
I hope Mr. Peters keeps traveling and keeps writing his often hilarious adventures. More, please!
I hope Mr. Peters keeps traveling and keeps writing his often hilarious adventures. More, please!
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