The World's Most Dangerous Places

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The best travel book ever. - Rated
Whilst Lonely Planet Guides - and their various knock-offs - tell you the basics of travelling to the places you think you'd like to go to, DP tells you all about the places you really don't want to go to, what to do when you get there, and how to come back in one piece. Written by a motley collection of adventurers and war correspondents (who have a terrifying attrition rate - at least two contributors to previous editions are now dead) DP is not only a guide book to war zones and danger, but also an excellent grounding in the geopolitical realities of how those places got like that, and a guidebook to surviving the travails and difficulties of being a western traveller in the Thrid World.
Where else would you find chapters on how to survive being kidnapped by Columbian drug barons, bribing thrid world police offers, and how to avoid landmines? Even the list of things to take travelling with you differs from teh usual advice - along with the same old/same old tips on travelling light and taking torches and waterproofs, you're advised to take gifts for the people you meet - cigarettes, and a large supply of cheap watches.
As travel advice, it's excellent. As a geopolitical primer, it's the best single book I've ever read. As a book of stories of people travelling to places and meeting people you'd never want to, it's great fun. What reason is there not to own a copy? I'll be sending copies to many of my friends this Christmas.

Fantastic - Rated
With this book I was able to plan a trip to Chechnya that was incredible. Sure, it was dangerous, but Fielding's plus some common sense and you can have a lot of fun and learn a lot of things, even in a place of immeasurable suffering. While I may not be ready for Sierra Leone yet, I have been to Bosnia and it's not too bad. It will be even better when they remove all of the landmines that were planted there during the war. Buy this book and forget Hawaii or Europe this year: go to Congo!

Dangerous Places is an Accurate Book - Rated
As a frequent traveller and retired Army officer, I find that Mr. Pelton and his co-authors are very accurate in their descriptions and observations of the countries and places in this book.

As a traveller to Africa, the Philippines, the Pacific rim, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South and Central America, I find the book to be accurate in every sense. It also offers valuable geo-political lessons about the world.

To the Amazon web editor: It would be a good thing if Amazon removed the duplicate set of comments by our opinionated, close-minded friend from South Africa. It sounds as if the writer has some agenda against the book, which is too bad. It is a disservice to a great book.

A splendid book for the cautious traveller - Rated
A splendid book if you want to see and know the place that you are going to. A "must-own" book for the traveller who want to really examine his place.Buy it as fast as you can.

Great Vacation Guide - Rated
We use this book to plan most of our vacations. This book is a "must own" for all adventurous travelers and it's also a good book for the armchair travelers. I keep one copy with me almost all the time and the other copy stays on the coffee table as a conversation piece. I wish they would hurry up and publish the 4th edition.