Lonely Planet The world's leading travel guide publisher Greedy Lords dubious heroes wicked relations & innocents in peril
- today's world sounds like a grim fairytale! Travelling along the infamous ' Axis of Evil' led to Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands
- now he's going deeper into the world's darkest corners to explore a rogue's gallery of troubled nations Every country has its problems but some problems seem so vexed so intractable so absurd you can only shake your head Tony Wheeler trains his well-travelled eyes on some of these places & attempts to understand how things got so messed up Along the way he gets stoned (with the thrown variety) in Palestine scores a speeding ticket in Zimbabwe gets arrested for photographing a bar in the Congo & visits Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad in Pakistan Join Tony & find out if there's a happily-ever-after in these tales from the dark side Author Tony Wheeler About Lonely Planet Started in 1973 Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet as well as an award-winning website a suite of mobile & digital travel products & a dedicated traveller community Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world & to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel Trip Advisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 & 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category' Lonely Planet guides are quite simply like no other'
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