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Summary: Survive Hostile Destinations
Review: A very good read that is easy to understand and follow. I would recommend anyone to read this book before traveling to any remote or hostile area of the world. Many points in the book can be applied right here at home when traveling. Besides not all hostile locations are located in some third world country.
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Summary: Well written and detailed
Review: An amazing book and easy to follow. This book is required reading for anyone who ventures into foreign lands. I read it twice before my trip to Indonesia and applied the principles while there. It forces you to be more aware of your surroundings and adds a layer of protection for even the most mundane things Americans do while traveling over-seas. In today's world of kidnapings and terrorism, this book and Robert Pelton's Dangerous Places book are essential tools for the foreign traveler. I look forward to next book by the authors.
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Summary: An extremely practical guide to preserving personal health
Review: Collaboratively written by Jeff Randall and Mike Perrin, Adventure Travel In The Third World is an extremely practical guide to preserving personal health and safety when traveling to remote and sometimes hostile destinations in underdeveloped and developing countries. From tips to avoiding theft or violence, to practical precautions to take with drinking water as protection against disease, and much, much more, Adventure Travel in the Third World truly lives up to it's subtle "Everything You Need to Know to Survive in Remote and Hostile Destination". Adventure Travel In The Third World is an absolute "must-read" for anyone who planning to visit these exotic, often beautiful, yet sometimes dangerous areas of the world.
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Summary: Great study guide
Review: for anyone who travels into remote areas of developing countries. this book has been valuable to my work in colombia. highly recommended!
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Summary: Excellent book for overseas travel
Review: I have traveled a great deal in under developed countries and always thought someone should write a "guide" book on how to travel instead of just writing guide books on specific countries. Except for small cultural differences most 3rd World countries are the same, so a book of this nature should do well for a broad spectrum of travlers. I just finished reading this book by Randall and Perrin and it is exactly what I always wanted in a book for 3rd World travel. It should be required reading for anyone going overseas, whether they are experienced travelers, military, adventurers, or family vacations. Excellent book from folks who have been there and done that!
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Summary: Adventure Travel in the Third World Hype
Review: The newest entry into self-pretentious bombastic absorption is the collaboration of promoters Mr. Randall, and Mr. Perrin. These two people seem to have come out of nowhere and presented themselves as the grandiloquence of third world travel. The book "Adventure Travel In The Third World" is a good read but can be put together using cut and paste on your computer much cheaper. Scale of one to five I give it two stars for effort.
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Summary: if there were ANY other book on the topic, I'd never bother
Review: This book is only of any value since nobody has any real alternative in finding this type of information elsewhere. The writing is quite poor, the text is disorganized and the authors often foolishly overgeneralize and at times hint at their ignorance of the host countries. Overall this book is a pretty pathetic attempt at a serious guide for travelers outside W.Europe and N.America, but, then again, there are almost no other books on the topic, so it looks like we're stuck with this.
Don't get me wrong, there are some useful tips, but the authors dance around going into detail on articulating a lot of very important points, especially with respect to staying out of trouble, establishing rapport with your hosts, etc, etc. Thus, unfortunately, a lot of the most important topics only receive cursory mention and/or little explanation. Some of the 'tips' aren't even well thought-out. One example comes to mind: "use dog tags on your luggage so you don't have to fill out an ID tag every time you fly. That'd be great if you were going to France or the UK, but if you're trying to get over the Colombian border or whatever, the LAST thing you want on your pack is a set of military dog tags.
If you're going to be traveling in the developing world, and you feel like you absolutely MUST have a book on the subject, you might want to buy this book...used if possible. Mostly though, this information could be gleaned from a couple hours spent on a good web search.
I give it two stars, one of which comes from authoring one of almost no books on the subject.
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Summary: Stay out of trouble
Review: This book will keep you out of trouble travelling in the third world. Very good and easy to read. The authors have travelled to many of the same places I have and I find their experiences to be similar. Excellent book!
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Summary: This book is the "Real Deal"...
Review: Written by people who have "been there and done that." This book contains 11 chapters/261 pages of information that would take a lifetime to accumulate on your own. As frequent travellers to Central and South America, we have found the advice and insights of this book indispensable. We especially enjoyed the many humorous stories and anecdotes this book contains. Congratulations, RAT Team. This book is a winner! Daryl and Jamey
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