There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you cant buy a McDonalds hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the worlds wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen. Highly entertaining The Times What amazing tales he has to tell and with what enthralling vividness . . . Riveting Daily Mail The range of his travels is staggering . . . Never less than entertaining sometimes moving and often funny Sunday Telegraph