num_pages: 310
description: A unique collection of brief encounters and adventures from working in seventy countries - a kaleidoscope of landscapes sounds smells politics humor dialogue and above all people.This is a warts-and-all account of the author's travels with disasters and miseries alongside the high points. He takes you to danger zones to wars of startling savagery in Sierra Leone Pakistan and Angola to coups and dubious elections. He narrowly avoids death in India Mexico and Nigeria. In other episodes he simply savors the pleasures of traveling alone. As the author says 'Nothing sharpens the understanding more than seeing things done ten different ways in ten different countries.'
language: English
title: Fakirs, Feluccas and Femmes Fatales: Tales From An Incidental Traveller
publisher: Bradt Travel Guides