| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
286 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Hoffman takes readers around the globe the way most people experience it and provides an up-close-and-personal view of its most teeming cities and remotest places. An eye-opening look at how welcoming the everyday people of the world can be to a complete stranger. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Time for prayer -- Americas. Go! ; Hope for Buena Suerte ; Your time comes or it doesn't -- Africa. Agents of death and destruction ; That train is very bad -- Asia. Jalan! Jalan! ; The 290th victim ; I can only cry my eyes ; What to do? ; Scariana ; Hope and wait ; Same, same, but different. |
| Note |
"Discovering the world ... via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes". |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels.
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Hoffman, Carl -- Travel.
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Transportation -- Evaluation.
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| ISBN |
9780767929806 hardcover |
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0767929802 hardcover |
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