The dark tourist
Subtitle: sightseeing in the world's most unlikely holiday destinations
By: Dom Joly
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781445859460; 9781445859477
Subjects: Large type books; Travel; Anecdotes; Voyages and travels
Description: "Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in thr family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heards from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These experiences left Dom with a profound loathing of the modern day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of places. We follow him as he skis on segregated slopes in Iran, spends a weekend in Chernobyl, paintballs with Hezbollah and attempts to purchase Pol Pot's shoes in Cambodia - oh ... and he tries to find out more about his schooldays with Osama bin Laden."--Back cover.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: 1. Mullah's don't snowboard; title: 2. SAhooting through America; title: 3. Pol Pot's shoes; title: 4. The zone of alienation; title: 5. Do not enter the dangerous!; title: 6. The ruins of time; title: Epilogue.