{"product_id":"strange-tales-of-world-travel-bizarre-mysterious-horrible-hilarious-9781609521714","title":"Strange Tales of World Travel: * bizarre *","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen or experienced?” Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Everyone has a story, and some are truly extraordinary. Strange Tales of World Travel recounts 50 of these Bizarre, Mysterious, Horrible, Hilarious encounters, including:  Daring Diplomat, who ate the flesh of the venomous cobra bird in the Sahara Desert Pearl Trader, who survived a fever through a harrowing \"human\" honey treatment in Oman Agent Ghost, who was shot and left to die in a garbage dump in Africa Death-Defying Instagrammer, who stepped on the tail of the world’s sixth most venomous snake in Australia to take a better photo Human Pet, who became a prince’s prisoner in Qatar Imperial CEO, who made a minion fly twelve hours to Paris from Abu Dhabi to buy clean underwear Gorilla Doll, who broke the rules of visiting Rwandan gorillas and got dragged up the side of a volcano Strange Tales of World Travel presents unforgettable stories that celebrate the unique character of countries around the globe—and the distinctive characters that make travel endlessly intriguing and exhilarating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book contains some of the most astonishing tales I’ve ever encountered. One after another. They make for obsessive reading.” —Tim Cahill, author of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh “The entire point of travel is to encounter the unimaginable. Gina and Scott Gaille have collected some of the most remarkable tales to ever see the light of day. A hoot to read.” —J. Maarten Troost, author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals “A fabulous new book!  Two- or three-page stories, each one brings you to a different part of the world.” —Frommer’s Travel Show “Strange Tales of World Travel presents a world you will not find in glossy magazine articles, breathless blogs, or self-adulatory Instagrams ... it’s a world of adventures gone awry, ... of intimate glimpses of unimaginable wealth and unquestionable power, of close encounters with the wilder edges of human culture .... The result is a collection that is, as the book’s subtitle suggests, bizarre, mysterious, horrible, and hilarious—like travel, and life itself.” —From the Foreword by Don George, author of Lonely Planet’s How to Be a Travel Writer “Damn! I thought my book had the strangest bunch of true travel tales under the sun, but the Gailles’ collection leaves me in the dust. Maybe even obliterated in a Sahara sandstorm.” —Albert Podell, New York Times best-selling author of Around the World in 50 Years Bronze Winner in Travel Essay category - 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) Honorable Mention in Travel Book category - 2019 North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) Awards Finalist in Travel category - 2019 Foreword Magazine INDIES Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Don George 1. Shark Repellent, Bora Bora   2. Cobra Bird, Sahara Desert   3. Contagions, Botswana   4. Honey of Man, Oman  5. Beware of Road Surprises, Emirate of Sharjah  6. Feeding Frenzy, Galápagos Islands  7. No Snake Dies Before Midnight, Kangaroo Island  8. The Emperor Has No Underwear, United Arab Emirates  9. Road Warrior, Nigeria  10. Agent Ghost, Somewhere in Africa  11. Here, Little Birdie, Kenya  12. The Human Pet, Qatar  13. That’s Not a Rubber Ducky, Equatorial Guinea  14. Great White Shark Buffet, Southern Ocean  15. UFOs, South America and Caribbean Sea   16. Shere Khan, India  17. The Fourth Girlfriend, Lithuania   18. The Dying Giraffe, South Africa  19. Smooth Air Decree, Oman   20. Evicted, Angola  21. The Floating Islands, Peru  22. The First Hmong Lawyer in Laos, Laos  23. A Pug in Peril, Saudi Arabia   24. The Accidental Masseur, Madagascar  25. Hello, Mr. Bin Laden, Pakistan  26. Prehistoric Forest, Seychelles Islands   27. Too Close for Comfort, Rwanda   28. Lord of the Flies, British Virgin Islands   29. Digging Your Own Grave, Mauritania   30. Bush Meat, Cameroon   31. The Cat in the Hat, Kangaroo Island  32. Dr. Ebola, Central Africa  33. One Person’s Pet Is Another’s...Dinner, Ecuador   34. Be Careful What You Admire, Emirate of Abu Dhabi   35. The Red Carpet Isn’t for Me, Gabon   36. The Askari, Tanzania   37. The Polar Bear, Arctic Ocean   38. Tsetse Fly Food, Serengeti Plains   39. The Concierge, South Australia   40. Valley of Mole Rats, The Rift Valley  41. The Real Equator, Ecuador   42. The Land of Hospitality, Japan  43. The Home of Vodun, Togo   44. The Hidden People, Iceland  45. Sea of Scooters, Vietnam  46. Road Kill Art, Australia  47. Don’t Mess with the Cape Buffalo, Malawi  48. The Tanzanite Miner, Mount Kilimanjaro  49. The Elephant Graveyard, Ngorongoro Crater  50. Mayan God, Guatemala Acknowledgments  About the Authors","brand":"Travelers' Tales, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359724929367,"sku":"9781609521714","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strange-tales-of-world-travel-bizarre-mysterious-horrible-hilarious-9781609521714","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}