Product Description

'Highly entertaining' - "The Times". 'What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness ...Riveting' - "Daily Mail". 'The range of his travels is staggering ...Never less than entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny' - "Sunday Telegraph". There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5851986 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio CD

Review
'Highly entertaining' The Times; 'What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness...Riveting' Daily Mail; 'The range of his travels is staggering...Never less than entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny' Sunday Telegraph

About the Author
John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including Strange Places, Questionable People, News from No Man's Land and Days From a Different World.