Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places, Fifth Edition...

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is out now and it is hands-down the book of year in my opinion.

If you don't know who Robert Young Pelton(RYP) is, you owe it to yourself to read DP5. I have yet to see a more accurate view of the state of the world in a travel guide, albeit tongue-in-cheek at times. His worldview is pragmatic and humane at the same time. Black-humor journalism at it's finest. They go the backwaters and hellholes of the world and see it as their duty as adventurers.

I hope that some of you well-read, culturally-aware ILxors know about this stuff already.

On a sad note, two contributors to the DP series have been killed in their travels since the last edition. One was shot in the face by a Russian soldier in Chechnya and one was killed in a motorcycle accident in Thailand.

RIP Wink Dulles and Roddy Scott.

― Cub, Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I will check this out

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom got me a copy to read on the plane, but i left it at the airport. this was the last edition though

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a goldmine of intel. And it will you will impress others on the cocktail circuit with the knowledge reaped from this book. It's that damn good.

― Cub, Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

its v, good.
a useful political primer.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Pelton's Come Back Alive is well worth checking out also along with his web site.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I think I've learned more about "the way the world works" from this book than any number of hideously boring political science books and articles. Highly recommended to any amateur or involved student of world politics. He has a great political stance, too: he'll criticize both Shrub's heartless politics, and Communist strongholds like Cuba and the old USSR, with equal vigor. I daresay this man could accurately be called a humanist, and that's a rare breed these days.

― justin s., Wednesday, 21 May 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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