DailyLit: Travel Books

Whatever You Do, Don't Run

by Peter Allison

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Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals—herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides whose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a pride of hungry lions!

Join Allison as he faces down charging lions—twice; searches for a drunk, half-naked tourist who happens to be a member of the British royal family; drives a Land Rover full of tourists into a lagoon full of hippos; and adopts the most vicious animal in Africa as his "pet." Full of lively humor and a genuine love and respect for Botswana and its rich wildlife, Whatever You Do, Don't Run takes you to where the wild things are and introduces you to a place where every day is a new adventure!

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Previously published by The Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press.

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Wikipedia Tours: World Capitals

by Wikipedia

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Journey to a different international capital city each day without ever leaving your seat with the World Capitals tour. From Nairobi to Caracas, Vienna to Kuala Lumpur, you’ll learn about fifty selected capital cities, each with its own unique history, culture, and people.

The text of this Wikipedia Tour is available from Wikipedia under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Wikipedia Tours: Wonders of the World

by Wikipedia

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The seven ancient wonders meet medieval, modern, and natural marvels for this incredible tour of some of the world’s most amazing sights. Although many of the original ancient wonders have disappeared, destroyed by the passage of time, medieval and modern people have kept the tradition alive, routinely creating new lists that cover everything from industrial to natural sites. Your sense of wonder will soar as you explore the breathtaking sites and structures that have captivated the world.

The text of this Wikipedia Tour is available from Wikipedia under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Fieldwork

by Mischa Berlinski

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A National Book Awards finalist and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers Winter 2007 Selection

Vivid, passionate, funny, deeply researched, and page-turningly plotted, Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski is about fascination and taboo—scientific, religious, and sexual. It introduces an assured and captivating new voice in American fiction.

How does Mischa Berlinski end up in Thailand in the middle of a clash between an anthropologist and missionaries? The Internet start-up he works for goes bust in San Francisco. He's bored, with no job in sight, until his girlfriend gets a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand. Mischa goes along and finds work with an English-language newspaper. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead—a suicide—in the Thai prison where she was serving a fifty-year sentence for murder.

Motivated first by simple curiosity, then by deeper and more mysterious feelings, Mischa searches relentlessly to discover the details of Martiya's crime. His search leads him to the origins of modern anthropology—and into the family history of Martiya's victim, a brilliant young missionary whose grandparents left Oklahoma to preach the Word in the 1920s and never went back. Finally, Mischa's obsession takes him into the world of the Thai hill tribes, whose way of life becomes a battleground for two competing, and utterly American, ways of looking at the world.

Praise for Fieldwork

"A great story. It has an exotic locale, mystery, and a narrative voice full of humor and sadness...You can't stop reading until midnight...and you don't hate yourself in the morning...A story that cooks."
—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

"A really, really good story...An intricate whodunit, both disturbing and entertaining...An intoxicating journey."
—Terry Hong, The Washington Post

"An impressive feat of literary acrobatics...An inspired and courageous book."
—Kevin Smokler, San Francisco Chronicle

"Fieldwork, is that rare thing—an entertainingly readable novel of ideas."
—Tim Rutten, Los AngelesTimes

"Berlinski's methodical account of the factors that led a rational intellectual to commit such a heinous crime is air-tight and intensely gripping. But equally notable is his ability to conjure such an elaborate portrait of the fictional Dyalo, and his treatment of both religious missionary and anthropological fieldwork is subtle and insightful...Impeccable research and a juicy, intricate plot pay off in this perfectly executed debut."
—Kirkus Reviews starred review

"Mischa Berlinski brings a wealth of vivid detail to his narrative, and writes with real authority. Fieldwork is as fascinating as an ethnographer's private journal, as entertaining as a finely plotted thriller."
—John Wray, author of Canaan's Tongue

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Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist

by Cash Peters

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Cash Peters is not an intrepid reporter. A transplanted Brit, he travels around the US visiting the most pointless and ridiculous tourist traps his producers can think up. He fights the urge to faint at the Rattlesnake Museum. He is careful not to actually do any research beforehand, nor to ask probing questions of tour guides, so as not to destroy the freshness of the reportage.

In Gullible's Travels, Peters shares the cultural highlights of America: The Museum of Sanitary Plumbing, the Barbed Wire Museum, the Museum of Feet ("Dr. Scholl was not gay."), Official Museum of Bad Art ("It's either a ski slope with a face, or possibly a dog in a veil."), but fails to gain entry to the Museum of Dirt. Along the way, he insults and puzzles Midwesterners and fantasizes about Judi Dench's portrayal of him in his inevitable cinematic autobiography.

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Italian Journeys

by William Dean Howell

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Whatever You Do, Don't Run

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Fieldwork

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