The dark tourist : sightseeing in the world's most unlikely holiday destinations
Dom Joly.
London : Simon & Schuste, 2011.
Dom Joly has always been fascinated by travel to strange places. His childhood in war-torn Lebanon, punctuated by sheltering in the basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the forest, left him with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of destinations. In this brilliantly odd and hilariously told travel memoir, Dom sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mil. He skis on segregated slops 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.
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Bibliographic Information
- Format:
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Book
- Subject:
- Voyages and travels > Anecdotes.
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Language:
- English
- Published:
- London
- ISBN:
- 9781847398468
- Course:
- GEB119
Moving Worlds: Travel, Culture, and Identity - Note:
- Includes index.
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