The lunatic express : discovering the world via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes

Summary: Hoffman takes readers around the globe the way most people experience it and provides an up-close-and-personal view of its most teeming cities and remotest places. An eye-opening look at how welcoming the everyday people of the world can be to a complete stranger.

Record details

ISBN: 0767929802 (hc)
ISBN: 9780767929806 (hc)
Physical Description: 286 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Discovering the world ... via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes".
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: Time for prayer -- Americas. Go! ; Hope for Buena Suerte ; Your time comes or it doesn't -- Africa. Agents of death and destruction ; That train is very bad -- Asia. Jalan! Jalan! ; The 290th victim ; I can only cry my eyes ; What to do? ; Scariana ; Hope and wait ; Same, same, but different.