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Lonely Planet Unpacked
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Lonely Planet Unpacked

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Sometimes travel doesn't go according to plan - but that's what gives you the best stories! Around the world, these Lonely Planet writers encounter hurricanes, road accidents, secret police and nasty parasites - among other aspects of life on the dark side of the road.

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LanguageEnglish
PublisherLonely Planet
Release dateDec 1, 2011
ISBN9781742208671
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Lonely Planet has gone on to become the world’s most successful travel publisher, printing over 100 million books. The guides are printed in nine different languages; English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Korean. Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and get to the heart of a place via guidebooks and eBooks to almost every destination on the planet, an award-winning website and magazine, a range of mobile and digital travel products and a dedicated traveller community.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    There were a few good stories but overall it was not very entertaining.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a collection of stories billed as "travel disasters" and written by the folks who write or edit the Lonely Planet guides. I dived into this fully expecting some really funny but harrowing tales (well, only expecting funny because the authors clearly survived their disasters to later write about them) but found the comedy I was expecting to be sorely lacking. And for me, the non-lover of short stories, simply reading short essays about travel going wrong written with the literary equivalent of a straight face was not all that satisfying. The disasters ranged from a remotely occuring car accident to being robbed while in a foreign country and surrounded by unhelpful officials and they occurred all over the world, proving that there is no such thing as a disaster-proof trip. I suspect that these writers are very good at the travel writing they do for the Lonely Planet Guides, and none of the essays here were poorly written, but this collection left me disappointed. Personally I find that levity helps in the re-telling of any and all disaster situations and would definitely have helped here. So this wasn't my cup of tea but perhaps other armchair travelers will have a better experience.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Disappointing. I was expecting more edge of the seat stories but instead many of the stories are somewhat mundane., especially for readers who have done a lot of traveling and experienced some of the incidents themselves.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Not the best travel writing, but a fast reading collection of stories of bad luck, bad decisions, and medium bad outcomes. Situations range from the discomfort of parasites to the threat of imprisonment, but all the travelers ultimately survive to write on.