The World's Most Dangerous Places
- The World's Most Dangerous Places
Robert Young Pelton's, The World's Most Dangerous Places (ISBN 0-06-273738-4) (1022 pages) is a frequently updated handbook written by Robert Young Pelton and an unusual crew of contributors. Although it is not meant to be used as an actual travel guide like Frommer's, the book's advice to staying alive and the facts about the world's most dystopian countries is still unique in the publishing world. It continues to be the only non aligned, apolitical, on the ground guide to high risk regions. It is as much a primer on political science as it is a humorous book about the impressive ability for apparently rational humans to routinely plunge their world into chaos and violence.
The first edition came out in 1994 and has gone through 5 editions. The most recent book in the series will be the upcoming DP Professional Strength from HarperResource.
The thick book is divided into three basic parts. The intro is a primer on the basics of staying safe in war zones and high crime areas.
The second section is a country by country breakdown of what Pelton considers to be the most dangerous places. It usually includes about 26 countries or regions including the US. They would then be broken down to a rating of 5 stars to 1 star.
The final and third element of this book (besides web links, addresses and even cell phone numbers for terrorist and rebel leaders) are the stories of what it is like for Pelton and his band of DP'ers to be in the middle of some of the planets most brutal events. They freely tell the reader how they got in, who they met and many of their failures. The book is a favorite of correspondents, military, NGO's, the US State Department, and is used by a number of intelligence agencies due to its access to the world's rebel groups.
ee also
*War tourism
External links
* [http://www.comebackalive.com/df/ Come Back Alive website]
* [http://www.fabuloustravel.com/shop/books/dangerousplaces.html Travel Books Review]
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