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The first thing you should know about Fielding's The World's Most Dangerous Places is that it is not a comforting book. Its pages bristle with tales of land mines, war zones, terrorists, mercenaries, mafiosi, massacres, kidnappers, drug smugglers, and all the other unpleasant travel disasters that are the stuff of nightmares. But then, as the editors point out in their foreword, "as travelers are kidnapped and executed in Cambodia, a recognized dangerous place, they also are hunted down and murdered in Los Angeles." In other words, the most dangerous thing in the world is ignorance.
The second thing you should know about The World's Most Dangerous Places is that it is not meant to be used as a guidebook. True, there will be some adrenaline junkies out there who, upon perusing the pages about the war in Chechnya, decide that that's the place they want to be. The most likely audience for this book, however, is comprised of people who either have to visit the perilous corners of the world--journalists, foreign-service employees, etc.--or have a desire to learn more about such places without necessarily visiting them. It's also a good compliment to more mainstream guidebooks for the growing legion of adventure travelers whose quests for higher mountains to climb, fiercer rivers to raft, and wilder trails to hike often take them to hazardous regions. Whether you're planning a trip to a dangerous place or just want to learn more about one, The World's Most Dangerous Places is the right book at the right time.
Book Description
Robert Young Pelton, a professional adventurer, and his team of international war correspondents have updated this indispensable handbook for the intrepid adventurer–– a "how–to" in getting in and out of the world's hot spots.
We are living in a dangerous world, and now more than ever people want to know what is going on where (and why). Featuring 25 countries, The World's Most Dangerous Places, 5th Edition offers a brief up–to–the–minute history of each nation, provides tips on how to get in, out and around safely, and uncovers their dangers, from diseases, land mines, and kidnapping to mercenaries and militias. Completely revised, this edition has a number of countries who have been added to the hot list.
With firsthand accounts of breathtaking adventure in each country, the book also provides the latest indispensable information on contacts for nongovernmental and rescue organizations, environmental groups, political activists, training schools in outdoor survival, commando techniques, and other potentially life–saving advice.
Customer Reviews:
Really several (long) books in one.......2007-06-13
This really consists of three books. The first, and the most obvious part, t is an actual, honest-to-goodness travel guide to dangerous places. I can easily imagine reporters, security consultants, and others pulling this book off their shelf before going to an unfamiliar place.
Inevitably, there are places left out. Pelton includes the United States here, half-seriously and half tongue-in-cheek. This is all to the good, and gives readers a sense of perspective. Still, its inclusion raises all sorts of questions. What makes the US dangerous is gun crime in some areas, which rates it one star (consistently with other countries such as India). But . . . the rates of gun crime are higher in most of Latin America, and kidnaping is much more common. In other words, if you're going to include the US, then Brazil and especially Mexico should have been in the book, along with many of their neighbors. Clearly his rating of the US reflects a pose more than a serious rating.
The second "book" here is a quick-and-dirty summary of the politics and society of these dangerous places. These summaries have information but tend to have rather more attitude. Pelton tries to be cool, tries to assign blame for conflicts in a non-standard way, and likes to review who-did-what-to-whom facts more than underlying causes.
The third "book" is a summary of issues that make places dangerous, such as the drug trade. This is more informative than the country summaries, but also displays a lot of attitude.
Much of the attitude in this book makes it quite funny. The book looks like an almanac or encyclopedia, but you can actually read in through straight. Over a long period.
It's a great read despite its length. Bring it to a dangerous place and throw it at your enemies.
Disclaimer: the US aside, the only "dangerous place" I've been is the Balkans, and I wasn't in the dangerous parts, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of the information on the ground.
Dangerous Places - Rated.......2007-05-08
You just do not know how lucky you have it until you read this book. I call it the places most likely not to be in my passport.
Great read. A must for the adventurer (armchair or real).
Loved it.......2007-03-11
The expanse and effort they took to writing this book is awesome, especially if one is dumb enough to actually wanna go to these places.
Mark Twain with attitude.......2007-02-04
I recently reread Twain's Innocents Abroad and followed it up with Pelton's TWMDP. Twain would approve. Pelton's prose is starkly cynical in all the right places and for the right reasons. Twain looked at the 19th century conviction that mankind was on an upward spiral of inevitable progress with a most jaundiced eye. He would read Pelton's missives as vindication of his darkest views. Pelton's book is a sober reminder that the world is a place of staggering complexity where tribalism, terrorism, and technology unite to mock any notion that history as progress is little more than a vapor. The book should be required reading for any student of history, world affairs, or politics.
The Worlds Most Dangerous Places........2007-01-28
This is my second edition of The Worlds Most Dangerous Places. My other one is a first edition. These books are not only an extremely concise snapshop of current world politics, they are funny and entertaining.
Book Description
Almost everybody does it--lie, that is. In one recent survey 93% of people admitted to lying regularly at work! Why? Because it's safer than telling the truth.
Sadly, organizations cannot succeed in this poisonous world of half-truths, strategic omissions, and doctored information. To function optimally businesses must create an environment where people feel free to tell the truth, no matter how disturbing. Only then can organizations unleash the responsiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm necessary to achieve their goals.
This unique book shows how, using the formal process of "dialogue," such a place can be built. In a lively discussion, the author shows managers how to use this technique to: * encourage truth-telling by reducing fear, prompting self-examination, and opening minds * build trust where suspicion and cynicism held sway * inspire individuals to think and learn as a group * help groups talk through tough issues and move to collaborative action.
Customer Reviews:
Angry people are kind of sad....don't you think?.......2005-05-07
Now out of print- this book sells for more than it's original publication price. It is used as a textbook in several org. behavior classes. Is referenced in more than one Ph.D. dissertation. The author (me) facilitates this form of dialogue successfully with gay and conservative christians, within the intelligence community (WMD was a communication issue) and with other difficult groups. THe book describes a process that is reliable, easily duplicated, and adaptable. This isn't a popularity contest. This is about helping people get past angry attacks and move on to collaborative partnerships. Check it out if you want to make a positive difference in the world.
Totally without value.......2005-04-11
It's truly hard to believe that a publisher thought this book was
worth publishing. It's 250 pages with several empty cliches per
page.
Here are the directions to your organizations mind & heart........1999-09-22
What is it about organizations that creates so many secrets? In this bright and enjoyably written book, Annette Simmons reveals the subtle art of allowing people to share the secrets througth dialogue. From identifying the escape routes to explaining the step by step process in which dialogue unfolds she clearly identifies what you can expect if you simply follow the directions. She even includes directions. I immediately used this book in a two day retreat that was astounding in helping a California State Agency work through the change process.
Here are the directions to your organizations mind & heart........1999-09-22
What is it about organizations that creates so many secrets? In this bright and enjoyably written book, Annette Simmons reveals the subtle art of allowing people to share the secrets througth dialogue. From identifying the escape routes to explaining the step by step process in which dialogue unfolds she clearly identifies what you can expect if you simply follow the directions. She even includes directions. I immediately used this book in a two day retreat that was astounding in helping a California State Agency work through the change process.
An easy-to-read mix of the "why" and "how" of dialogue.......1999-08-04
Dialogue is a difficult and potentially fear inducing process. The author admits all that and gives the reader the background and a process to facilitate and engage in dialogue. The book is easy-to-read, free of unnecessarily confusing jargon, and full of good illustrative anecedotes. The author recommends some unorthodox facilitative roles based on her experience (some of which I had thought of before I read the book, but was afraid to try out). I found myself jumping from section to section to follow my interest---this was not a linear ead for me. The appendix on how to get dialogue started with a group is also helpful.
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Readers for whom the word travel ordinarily conjures images of white-sand beaches or Tuscan hill towns might wonder what person of above-average intelligence leaves home in hopes of face-to-face contact with Afghan rebels, Malaysian pirates, warlords, headhunters, or terrorists. That person, apparently, is Robert Young Pelton. Among adventure enthusiasts, Pelton is probably best known for The World's Most Dangerous Places, his utterly unique, tough-guy's guide to where not to travel, and a similarly named series on the Discovery Channel. Part travelogue, part memoir, The Adventurist is Pelton's attempt to explain what some would call his lifelong death wish, but that the author describes as "an expedition of discovery, a dangerous one with no scripted endings."
The Adventurist juxtaposes scenes and reminiscences of Pelton's youth and young adulthood with stories of his latter-day adventures in the jungles, waterways, and deserts of some of the planet's most perilous locales. "It's in vogue now to blame things on your parents or society. I don't blame anybody for anything," Pelton explains, but considering his descriptions of his abusive parents and his harrowing stint at "the toughest boys' school in North America," it is difficult not to draw connections between the privations of Pelton's youth and his obsessive need to confront danger--and the people who survive it--in order to feel alive.
Although at times Pelton's prose style is about as subtle as the firing end of an AK-47 ("It was time to live like the wind and then to die like thunder"), The Adventurist delivers on its "invitation to you to join me on the wire. To take that first step, look forward, fight your fears..." It offers views of places and experiences that most readers would otherwise never know, with the careful reminder that, "like home, adventure is not places so much as people." --Svenja Soldovieri
Book Description
The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going.
Enter the world of Robert Young Pelton (if you dare), adventurer extraordinaire, author of
Come Back Alive and
The World's Most Dangerous Places (required reading at the CIA), and host of his TV series, Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places.
A breakneck autobiography,
The Adventurist blasts across six continents and spans four decades of hard-core living with its dispatches of mayhem, adventure in exotic locales, survival against formidable odds, memories of the pivotal events, and memorable portraits of the people that have shaped Pelton's obsessive spirit.
Be shelled with the Talibs on the front lines of Afghanistan; hang out with hit men and rebels in the Philippines; survive a plane crash in Borneo; narrowly escape a terrorist bombing in Africa; dance with headhunters in Sarawak; crew with pirates in the Sulu Sea; explore the events that led Pelton to his unusual calling (including how he honed his survival skills at "the toughest boys' school in North America"); and, perhaps most important, discover Pelton's secret mission--to understand the hearts and minds of the people he meets.
The Adventurist is a real book about the real world, an inspirational read that takes you places you might never willingly go.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Fun.......2006-11-11
Great for a book you're just going to keep by your bed and pick up every so often. The short stories are just enough to get your imagination going. The author does a great job of making you feel like you're experiencing the locations as he did.
Almost great.......2004-11-29
Pelton has ventrued far and wide, to a self-reported selection of more than one hundred countries. Surely, in such extensive journeys he should be able to present new stories when he publishes new books. I bought this book looking not only for an autobiography, which was slow and repetitive about childhood and shallow beyond that, but for more adventures. When I realized that some of the longest stories in the Adventurist were stories that I had already read in World's Most Dangerous Places it disappointed me. Also, the book attempts to be artistic and creative by bouncing between stories much like The Things They Carried, but this fails in that sense. Here it is just slightly annoying and fairly useless. It could have been used well as a juxtaposition between similar phases of his life, but it didnt work as it should. The book is good, just dont expect too much.
One of the most exciting books I've read.......2004-07-30
A real page turner. I love the way the stories are organized. The chapters don't seem connected but as the book progresses his autobiography unfolds. Some people find it annoying, but I found it intriguing.
Good on ya Pelton!.......2002-02-12
Never mind what the stuffy wannabe literary critics have to say, Pelton writes about reality, and if you can't handle that, it is not a book for you. The people that have written negative reactions to the book obviously never left their home state or town for that matter. Pelton composes a fast, choppy, in your face yarn that will have you anxious to reach the next page...I highly recommend this one!
The interesting stories that could have been.......2002-01-18
I'm a traveller and enjoy travel writing. I thought I would like this book, but didn't. 'Disjointed' seems to best describe it. The author spends only a page or two describing places and events before popping off to someplace new. These one to two-page vignettes lack a sense of flow, lurching from one event to another, neither beginning nor concluding. This choppiness made it difficult to truly understand the depth, or escence, of the places he'd visited.
Book Description
In
A Dangerous Place, Marc Reisner, the author of
Cadillac Desert, the classic history of the American West and its fatal dependence on water, returns to the subject that never ceased to seduce him: California.
Writing with his signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Reisner leads us through California’s improbable history and rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the achievement of this, the last great desert civilization, hinges on California’s denial of its own inescapable fate. Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, mere prologues to a future cataclysm that will result in destruction of such magnitude that the only recourse will be to rebuild from the ground up. Reisner concludes
A Dangerous Place with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of such a disaster and its horrifying aftereffects.
Customer Reviews:
A Dangerous PLace.......2006-01-05
Stacey Fredrickson
Earth Science Honors
Block G
A Dangerous Place
By: Marc Reisner
A Dangerous Place is an Intense Book. If you thought California got a lot of earthquakes, you have no idea until you read this book. This Book tells you about all of California's earthquakes and the damage they have caused. It also tells you how California was founded and why people settled on this dangerous land. The author does an excellent job explaining the intensity of earthquakes, the damage they have caused and the damage potential that they have. This book also tells you first hand how treacherous earthquakes are. The author gives details of his ordeal with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is an excellent book and I highly recommend that you read it.
A dangerous place.......2006-01-02
The book A Dangerous Place is about California and its difficulties. It explains all of the weather related events that go on there. Some of the events are pretty horrible, such as the Great white winter of 1886, and the seismic quietude era, between 1906-1917. That was when the most damaging earthquakes took place. Another earth quake was the Kobe quake; it took place early in the morning thankfully only being a mid-level collapse. There is a scale for earth quakes, and a 7.0-7.7 is a major quake, and an 8.0 is a HUGE quake. Most of the time scientist try to figure out when a storm or quake is coming before it happens, so they can evacuate then before any one gets hurt. Such as John Reber, he handled a huge problem that could have had a huge amount of California in a fresh water lake. He figured out that once one event happened it would only get worse, and cause a whole list of things. 1. A population influx 2. Water crisis 3. Owens River aqueduct 4. Greater population influx 5. Another water crisis 6. Colorado River aqueduct and lastly 7. Which would lead to more people and water problems?
I would recommend this book to readers who like learning about scientists, earthquakes, and history about California. I was interested in it for the first 30 or so pages, but then it got confusing, and it did not catch my interest. For me, it was not fun reading about earth quakes, because it wasn't written like a story, it was just a book of knowledge. To me, even though it didn't interest me, it made me realize how hard it is to live in a place like that and all of the circumstances and dangers it has. I would not want to live in a place like that and it makes me feel sad for all of those who have lost family member in an even that took place there.
Short and Sweet..........2005-10-14
Clearly, the first part of this book was based on research done for "Cadillac Desert" and focuses on the history of growth and water supplies for San Francisco and LA. However, the second and third sections are new: the second section covers the vulnerability of these water supplies to earthquakes (many earthquake faults cross where the water supply lines are built, The third section is a quite realistic scenario of what would happen in the Bay Area in the event of a 7.2 (I think) earthquake. The book is very readable.
It Makes You Think.......2005-09-15
In light of Hurricane Katrina, and if you live in California, a must read. Quick, easy, scary, and thought provoking. It should be required reading for all of those who make decisions in California.
Welcome To My Nightmare!.......2004-12-23
A Dangerous Place by Marc Reisner is a difficult book to review - even though it contains the eloquent prose a reader expects from the author of the classic Cadillac Desert, it also represents an incomplete effort due to the author's untimely death. That said - and 4 stars assigned - let's move on to why this book is worth reading.
Marc Reisner has once again nailed the situation on the head - California, had we known then what we know now, was a really cruddy place to put a heavily populated state. The most populous cities in California either sit next to potentially dangerous faults or over top of them. [When I started teaching 20 years ago, the only known nearby fault to my high school was the Whittier fault - now my earthquake unit is far more exciting given the fact that we now know of two blind thrust faults - the Puente Hills and the Elysian Park - that lie beneath the high school!] Reisner makes the case that many California cities are very expensive ruins waiting to happen. Reisner's main focus in the back 2/3rds of the book is the Bay Area, where three main faults - the San Andreas, the Calaveras, and the Hayward - run directly under areas full of buildings that still have not been brought up to current code and will not withstand the next big quake. Lucy Jones, seismologist, and her colleagues, like to point out "earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do!" Part III of the book is a well-developed fiction of what the next Hayward fault earthquake might cost California and the nation. [I went to Hillside Elementary in Berkeley [no longer a public school] for 1st and 2nd grades, which sits directly on a bench cut in the Berkeley Hills by the Hayward fault.] This section has bothered a lot of readers, but the scenario is accurate and I suspect, had Reisner lived, there would have been a Part IV or an Epilogue to put a more conclusive ending to the book. The book also lacks an index. [I'm unaware of whether this situation was rectified or not in the paperback.]
This book, warts and all, can serve a valuable purpose - start a dialog among Californians and other folks in the United States about what to do about big cities near dangerous faults. We can't move them like we can a small town along the Mississippi River that has been destroyed by a flood or summer homes that have been washed off of a barrier island. And it should be noted that some of us live in California with our eyes very wide open [and this included Reisner himself]. Reisner didn't live long enough to witness the destruction of parts of Manhattan on 9/11/01 or the mashing down of Florida by 4 hurricanes in the summer and fall of 2004. One wonders what the conclusion of the book might have been in light of those disasters.
Book Description
The Second Edition of Terance D. Miethe and Richard C. McCorkle's thought-provoking Crime Profiles addresses the following questions about crime: Who are the offenders and victims?
What are the major motivators for crime?
Are most offenders specialists or generalists?
Are most offenders planners or opportunists?
What are their criminal histories?
How often are co-offenders involved?
What are the common features of dangerous places, times, and situational dynamics?
How effective are current crime prevention strategies?
Crime Profiles provides a descriptive summary of seven major forms of crime: Homicide and Aggravated Assault
Sexual Assault
Robbery
Burglary
Motor-Vehicle Theft
Occupational and Organizational Crime
Public-Order Crimes The Second Edition updates all national data to develop current profiles of each crime based on characteristics of the offender, the victim, and the situational context. Comparisons within and between crime profiles illustrate similarities and differences in criminal behavior. New examples illustrate both change and stability in the types of situations in which particular crimes occur.
Each chapter is organized in the same format - focusing on the particular definitions of the crimes, trends in their frequency of occurrence, the offender profile, the victim profile, situational elements and circumstances, particular subsets of crime syndromes, crime prevention, and intervention strategies. Easy-to-read tables and charts summarize major trends.
Crime Profiles is suitable as a supplement for a variety of courses in criminology, criminal justice, and sociology.
Customer Reviews:
Reading this book is the best way to be safe.......2007-09-13
I find the book reads easily and well, not like a text book or manual. It gives you practical information on how to stay safe on a day to day basis, allowing you to live and not to be over paranoid in these ever changing times. This book sharpens your situational awareness and gives you basic fundamentals that will never change. His real life descriptions make you realize how dangerous society has become and how unprepared you are to face those situations.
This book will help you win a violent confrontation!.......2007-08-28
If you carry a gun or are planning on doing so then this book is a must read. In his own voice Bryan Williams clearly explains what every gun owner or person interested in the safety and protection of themselves or others needs to know to win a violent confrontation! I highly recommend this book to everyone. I was not able to put the book down once I started reading it. Welcome to the Real world is filled with many useful techniques and stories based on the authors vast real life experiences as a former cop who won a medal for bravery in the line of duty. Also Bryan is able to draw upon his years of experience working in the private security and protective services and training countless civilians, law enforcement and military personel to win and not just survive!
Best Tactical firearms training Handbook Available.......2007-08-28
Having studied martial arts for eight years and taught self defense for close to two years there is no other book I can reccommend to sharpen your awareness and learn real life skills in the world of self defense especially if you are interested in carrying a concealed firearm. With real-life experiences and situations to base his teachings on, Mr. Williams approaches tactical firearms training with a simple, down-to-earth tone that works!
Well worth your time.......2005-09-23
Bravo! Finally a book which the layperson can understand! Low on jargon and insider buzzwords, it's high on clarity, timliness, and practicality. The book reads easily, and answers all those questions mused upon by the average person. The touch of humor was a welcome respite to such a ponderous subject, and I'm looking forward to Mr. Williams next volume. Hopefully it wll expand upon actual scenarios, discuss legal cautions, and reinforce the principles set forth in this work. A read worthy of one's precious time this.
What you dont know WILL hurt you!.......2005-08-09
I have been in the self defense business for 25 years, both in the military and in civilian life, and I can tell you that 80% of the population has no idea what dangers surround them or what to do about it. Welcome to the Real World will fill you in quickly, and give you no nonsense information about how to recognize danger, avoid it, and if you cannot avoid it, how to handle it. The power of the book comes from the fact that the author knows what he is talking about - he has been there and done that, and wants to make sure his knowledge and experience can help the reader. As a fellow author, I also found the book to be written in and informative, yet entertaining style. I will recommend this book to all of my students.
Book Description
Bookstore shelves are lined with tomes dedicated to the finest things that life has to offer. This is all well and good, but the real entertainment is to be found not in the cream of the crop, but at the bottom of the barrel. The World's Worst is a celebration/indictment of nearly 50 infamous and little-known exemplars of the awful. In thoroughly researched, scathingly funny essays, author Mark Frauenfelder avoids the obvious and digs deep to tell the fascinating tales of the worst people, places, and things on Earth for the reader's amusement and edification. Half of the entries are also mischieviously illustrated by the author. Addictively readable, and sure to appeal to fans of the popular Worst-Case Scenario and Darwin Awards series, The World's Worst is hilariously unafraid to wallow in the mire.
Selected Horrible Highlights:
Most Unappealing Fetish
Most Disgusting Coffee Drink
Most Horrific Self-Help Technique
Least Adorable Pet
Saddest Fate for an Island Nation
Worst Molasses Related Disaster
Customer Reviews:
you can tell some books by their cover.......2007-10-06
The title and the cover graphic says it all. For the right niche in the right situation, this book would be, at least briefly, a focus of attention and a source of gross-outs, accompanied by snarffing, moaning, and tittering laughter (oh, sick!). Simple and superficial, it could be advertised in one of the Scholastic book catalogs. Probably most appreciated by 12 to 16 year old boys. Could be a fun xmas stocking stuffer. Whoa.
Amusing but thin.......2007-07-29
This book consists of a couple dozen "chapters" of 2-3 pages each. Each chapter focuses on an arbitrarily-chosen "world's worst/disgusting." A few choices are debatable - - I would reverse the order of the two most disgusting beverages, both described in the same chapter.
The writing style is light and generally amusing but not laugh-out-loud funny. The book is likely to appeal most to pre-teens and teens because of the grossness (content is PG-13 in places), but adults can enjoy it too.
Aside from the fact that it could be funnier, my main objection is just that it's really short, what with the small page size, low page count, large number of title pages (one per chapter) and drawings. I read it in a half hour, and would have been happy to read it longer had there been more to read. But I passed it on to the rest of the family, and so we got some collective value from it. If longer, it would have earned four stars; call it 3.5.
It Can Always Get Worse.......2007-01-15
Mr. Frauenfelder has scoured the globe for interesting bits of trivia related solely by their ability to horrify. Whether natural perils or stomach turning drunken antics, the book holds one's attention. Perhaps in reading of such events and things we can take solace in our normal and safe lives. Seriously, who first decided to make a drink out of berries scavenged from the dung of a wild cat? Who first opened a fruit that smells like rotting flesh and decided to taste it?
My only complaint was that the format was extremely limited. Perhaps in keeping with the jocular tone of the work the author didn't want to get into too much detail, but detail is precisely what makes many of these things fascinating.
If you have a friend or acquaintance who is discouraged, this would be an excellent gift. Perhaps we have an innate need to constantly reestablish that things can always be worse.
Great book! But if only it comes in color.......2005-10-24
This is absolutely wonderful book. A great read in free time.
Super-Duper!.......2005-09-14
All I can say is that this book was fan-to-the-tastic! I just could not put it down. It kept me so amused that I wanted to go out and give Mark Frauenfelder a big hug. The headless rooster is intruiging and I could read that story all day long. And The Most Stubborn Soldier made my sides split in laughter. And you, dear reader, would be Word's Stupidest Consumer if you didn't buy this immediately.
Book Description
Rugged traveler Ted Lewin has
- swum with hungry sharks!
- been chased by angry bears!
- snuck up on sleeping tigers!
- come face-to-face with venomous snakes!
... and lived to tell his story!
Risking his life to take dozens of shots as risky as the jacket photo, this thrill seeker fills the pages of Tooth and Claw with stories, drawings, and photos that very well could have been his last!
Customer Reviews:
copycat.......2006-07-13
Interesting that he lifted the title from a book about the UN, ("A Dangerous Place - The United Nations as a Weapon in World Politics") that preceded his. How original.
Celtic Deviltry in a Nest of Vipers.......2003-09-18
The late Dr. Moynihan started something unheard of in his (pre-Kirkpatrick) era: he spoke the truth to the United Nations. In 1975 America was in retreat. It had abandoned its allies in Indochina, it had not long before prevented Israel from properly winning a war, it's president refused to meet Solzhenitsyn lest it's enemies would be distracted from meeting with Angela Davis, and it allowed with but an occasional whimper the hypocritical UN majority, either through Soviet instruction or reflex or both, to slap about America and its ideals. Then came Moynihan. For eight months he held those who castigated and damned us to account. It now seems simple good sense: those who would slaughter rival tribes in Burundi and those who operated Gulag cannot get away with UN shoe-banging in protest of America's free (and elected) association with Puerto Rico or of Israel's right to exist without its pre-schools having to hose human remains off its playgrounds. But then it was actually a big deal--the New York Times quivered whenever he approached a UN microphone. The late ambassador does not in my opinion write in a style too complex for the casual reader; in fact, his Irish wit and grasp of English make this a universal volume for anyone with an interest in foreign policy as well as those who appreciate truth telling.
the UN intricacies.......2003-04-04
if political machinations are interesting to you, then this book will wholly appease. i found it too complex for the most part from an outsider's point of view.
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Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific
The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places
Adventure Travel in the Third World: Everything You Need To Know To Survive in Remote and Hostile Destinations
Come Back Alive
