The lunatic express : discovering the world via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes / Carl Hoffman.

By:

Hoffman, Carl [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2010Edition: First editionDescription: 286 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0767929802
9780767929806

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

910.4 22

LOC classification:

G465 .H66 2010

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.

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.

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"Discovering the world ... via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes".

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.

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