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Summary: Very poorly researched account!
Review: The book contains too many inaccuracies, exaggerations and nonfactual assertions to be taken for a serious account. It appears that the author added a string of half-truths to another of hearsay and mixed it with own experiences, drawing a phantasmagoric scenery, impressing on people totally unacquainted with the subject matter. Those of us having been to the places and lived there must regard a good deal as tempest in a tea cup.
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Summary: has evolved without losing what makes these books great
Review: Thinking of going to someplace dangerous? Not sure if it's dangerous or not? Not even considering it, but want to read up anyway?Pelton can help you. He and his colleagues show every sign of actually going to most of these places, or of interviewing people who did. In the sort of laconic, matter-of-fact style you'd expect of a seasoned mercenary, Pelton tells you what you'd need to know to either survive the trip or (more likely) sensibly decide to go somewhere else.:) What's really attractive about this book, which is roughly the size and shape and thickness of an almanac, is the absolute wealth of information in it. Scores of links to websites. Chapters on countries, including historical and cultural notes. Chapters on crime categories. Stuff on diseases. Tables comparing countries in certain categories (air fatalities, for example). Arguably it should be in the reference section although it's pretty hard to defend moving it out of the travel section. In any event, it makes a wonderful companion to an almanac as a way of learning more about the rest of the world. Refreshingly, the United States (Pelton is Canadian) gets listed and its hazards considered just like any other country. Recommended either as travel information or as a reference on world cultures.
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Summary: Making fun of Lonely Planet...
Review: This is the political incorrect stepbrother of Lonely Planet.
Lonely Planet give you tip who needs visa to enter a specific country, where to stay and so on. Comebackalive isn't into that
stuff, more tell the history of the place and general recommendations.
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