- Paperback: 1022 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; 4th edition edition (Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0062737384
- ISBN-13: 978-0062737380
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 19 x 14.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,371,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A primer on how to get in and out if potentially lethal places."U.S. News and World Report"One of the oddest and most fascinating travel books to appear in a long time."Today Show"Survival tips you just don't get anywhere else!"Today Show"The controversial adventurers' guidebook to the world's hot spots."Today Show
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featuring more than 30 countries, revealing their hidden dangers, including everything from diseases, land mines, and kidnapping to mercenaries, mujahedin and militias. With firsthand accounts of breathtaking adventure in these hazardous locations, Pelton provides indispensable information and potentially life saving advice...
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After September 11, 2001 the need to understand far-flung conflicts and obscure groups was no longer the occupation of a few iconoclastic like myself and adventures war journos aid workers and military folks Read the first page
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Whilst Lonely Planet Guides - and their various knock-offs - tell you the basics of travelling to the places you think you'd like to go to, DP tells you all about the places you really don't want to go to, what to do when you get there, and how to come back in one piece. Written by a motley collection of adventurers and war correspondents (who have a terrifying attrition rate - at least two contributors to previous editions are now dead) DP is not only a guide book to war zones and danger, but also an excellent grounding in the geopolitical realities of how those places got like that, and a guidebook to surviving the travails and difficulties of being a western traveller in the Thrid World.
Where else would you find chapters on how to survive being kidnapped by Columbian drug barons, bribing thrid world police offers, and how to avoid landmines? Even the list of things to take travelling with you differs from teh usual advice - along with the same old/same old tips on travelling light and taking torches and waterproofs, you're advised to take gifts for the people you meet - cigarettes, and a large supply of cheap watches.
As travel advice, it's excellent. As a geopolitical primer, it's the best single book I've ever read. As a book of stories of people travelling to places and meeting people you'd never want to, it's great fun. What reason is there not to own a copy? I'll be sending copies to many of my friends this Christmas.
Where else would you find chapters on how to survive being kidnapped by Columbian drug barons, bribing thrid world police offers, and how to avoid landmines? Even the list of things to take travelling with you differs from teh usual advice - along with the same old/same old tips on travelling light and taking torches and waterproofs, you're advised to take gifts for the people you meet - cigarettes, and a large supply of cheap watches.
As travel advice, it's excellent. As a geopolitical primer, it's the best single book I've ever read. As a book of stories of people travelling to places and meeting people you'd never want to, it's great fun. What reason is there not to own a copy? I'll be sending copies to many of my friends this Christmas.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really got into this book. Used to think Burma was dangerous because a creepy dicatorship was in power. Now I know there has been a mish-mash of tribes fighting each other for a very long time. Mind blowing to know in some countries you can be robbed right in the airport. The accounts sometimes show both sides of a fight /revolution. And cities that are free-for-alls in Pakistan, where even the military left after having too many troops sniped. And so the backwater hellhole countries don't feel bad, it reviews dangerous cities too, including Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles, and the cities of Columbia where the murder rate is 10 times that of New York. A friend lent me the book. Couldn't find it at local bookstores. This place has it. Buy it, Share it! good reading since you'd never want to goto many of these places, but you'll understand the news about them.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Things that rock about this book.
1. Updated yearly. Where to avoid changes quickly, ya know.
2. Acts as a jumping off point. Most sections have net address, mailing addresses, or phone numbers for more current research.
3. Keeps things in perspective. How dangerous is terrorism compared to disease compared to driving compared to medical emergencies, etc..
4. Lighthearted, easy to read approach.
5. Political outlook. This isn't only a travel guide. Read this one cover to cover and you'll find out just how many petty dictators the CIA has installed and what the long term effects of that have been.
6. Chapters specific to both nations and hazards. Whether you need to know how to deal with Kurdistan or Kidnapping, there's a chapter on each.
7. General travel info. Great concentrated sections on general purpose travel planning for those who's idea of a great travel catalog runs closer to MSR than LLBean.
8. Actual accounts. Real stories from the places discussed, where the authors tell you who they ran from and who they had to bribe to still be alive to write this book for you. No macho hooey.
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ADDICTIVE ADRENALIN RUSH!! MUST HAVE!!
EXCELLENT WEB SITE LINKS, PHONE NUMBERS, CLUBS, T-SHIRTS, CAPS, FUN JOBS AND A RUSH TO READ!! BUY NOW!!
Published on 21 April 1998
Live the dangerous life vicariously through this book!
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