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A Travel Book for Under the Christmas Tree: To Hellholes and Back

Where: Congo
December 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM | by | Comments (0)

I got my hands on an early copy of Chuck Thompson's latest book, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism (on sale Tuesday, December 8, 2009), and enjoyed it immensely. In Hellholes, the original rogue travel writer and author of Smile When You're Lying comes to the conclusion that while he's been all over the world, he's consciously or unconsciously avoided many different places that scared the hell out of him. Feeling like a bit of a fraud, he decides to visit them all.

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