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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."
- Peter S. Jennison
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 Format: Paperback, 5th ed., 1008 pages
Edition: 5TH
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060011602
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
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Whether you are traveling to Afghanistan or within the U.S., Robert Young Pelton takes you where the timid fear to tread—straight into the heart of the world's forbidden, lethal, and even criminal places—giving you all you need to know to survive the experience.
Featuring more than 30 countries, The World's Most Dangerous Places reveals their hidden dangers, including everything from diseases, land mines, and kidnapping to mercenaries, mujahedin, and militias. With firsthand accounts of breathtaking adventure in these hazardous locations, Pelton provides indispensable information on contacts for rescue organizations, environmental groups, political activists (including rebel groups), training schools in outdoor survival, commando techniques, and other potentially life-saving advice.
Whether you're an armchair traveler or a die-hard explorer, The World's Most Dangerous Places is your ticket to the white-knuckle pursuit of adventure . . . wherever it may be.
Completely updated with over 20 new stories, new countries, thousands of unusual Web sites, and vital addresses!
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For those who have never read DP, I should provide the standard briefing. DP is not a travel guide; it is a guide to staying alive, a guide to less-traveled parts of the world and a guide to how to stay safe should you go there.
More importantly, DP is a book about learning things firsthand, about ignoring carefully coiffed newscasters and flipping the channel when talking heads regurgitate government policy or debate ethics du jour. DP is about stuffing a week's worth of old clothes into a tattered backpack and taking matters into your own hands. I don't care if you work in a hospital or man the front lines. There is no one right answer, no clean take, no big picture, just a lot of people who need to be heard and talked to about what makes this world the way it is. DP gives you enough addresses, phone numbers, web sites and backgrounders to intelligently formulate not an opinion but an approach.
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If you thought adventure travel meant roughing it in the rain forest or climbing a big bad mountain The World's Most Dangerous Places might just convince you that those kinds of trips are for wimps. —Oprah Winfrey
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About The Author
Pelton, 45, has chosen an odd career. In high school an aptitude-and-interest test told him he was only suited for three jobs: astronaut; advertising roan and adventurer. So much for career counseling. Pelton went on to become a lumberjack, boundary cutter, tunneler; driller and blaster's.assistant in addition to his more lucrative occupations as a business strategist and marketing expert. He was not considered for the astronaut program although he has been ejected from many countries at great speed.
Pelton's articles ride the intellectual and demographic frontier in publications as diverse as the Harvard International Review to Soldier of Fortune to Road &Track to ABC News.com. He has been a featured speaker at the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design), the Explorer's Club and an Afghan high school. Despite, this recent success; Pelton doesn't consider himself a writer or a pundit. "Just a guy trying to figure things out and who has to write things down so he doesn't forget."
Not much slows Pelton down; he has survived car accidents, bombings, gunfire, front lines, muggings, illness, aging Russian gunships, attacks by the PKK, SCUDS in Chechnya, two encounters with African killer bees, a plane crash in the central highlands of Kalitmantan and a terrorist bomb in Uganda. He attributes his numerous arrests and detainments to his hosts' need to get to know him better and to further his on-the-job survival training. Despite these minor setbacks, Pelton still faces each dangerous encounter with a sense of humor and an irreverent wit.
Pelton is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, in London and lives in Los Angeles, California.
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