TY - BOOK AU - Hoffman,Carl TI - The lunatic express: discovering the world via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes SN - 0767929802 AV - G465 .H66 2010 U1 - 910.4 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Broadway Books KW - Hoffman, Carl KW - Voyages and travels KW - Transportation KW - Evaluation N1 - "Discovering the world ... via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes"; 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 N2 - 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 ER -