Book description
There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't
buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson
has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a
celebration of some of the world's wilder places. His extraordinary
experiences include stories about a television camera that killed
people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview
and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen. 'Highly entertaining' The Times
'What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness
. . . Riveting' Daily Mail 'The range of his travels is staggering . . .
Never less than entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny' Sunday
Telegraph John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has
twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won
countless other major television awards. He has written several books,
including five volumes of autobiography,
Strange Places, Questionable People
, A Mad World, My Masters
, News from No Man's Land and Not Quite World's End
and a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World
. The Wars Against Saddam
, his account of the West's relationship with Iraq and his two decades
reporting on that relationship encompassing two Gulf Wars and the fall
of Saddam Hussein, is also published by Pan Macmillan. He lives in
London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.
