A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life
- ISBN-10
- 033051640X
- ISBN-13
- 9780330516402
- Series
- A Mad World, My Masters
- Category
- Travel
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-30
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Author
- John Simpson
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
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Other editions
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- 1995
- 389 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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