Not Interesting Enough for You?

Experience post-invasion Baghdad at dusk as the power fails yet again. Travel to Iraq’s Shia shrines and witness the uncovering of a mass grave of Saddam Hussein's victims.  Try to visit a bar and a bowling-alley in Pyongyang (and fail). Travel on the Mandalay-Rangoon express through the secret city of Naypyidaw. Run from the wild dogs on the prairies of what used to be Detroit. Penetrate to the heart of a Shia shrine in Iran, and meet a Mullah in the Holy City of Qom. Find out what it’s really like to be an both an Arab and an Israeli. Meet the state’s thugs in Cairo. Find out why the people of Sevastopol didn’t like being Ukrainian, and visit a town in Ukraine (now in turmoil)  that’s twinned with Barnsley . Visit Spain’s Gibraltar, a rocky colony on the edge of Africa. Experience the power of Shanghai, meet a Chinese caveman and cough and splutter in China’s most polluted city. Enter the shanty towns of Caracas, and visit the spot in Havana where Che Guevara supervised mass executions of Castro’s opponents.  Meet the students at India’s strangest university. Mourn as TV is introduced to beautiful, serene Bhutan. Enter the sinister mining zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 

All this, and much more, is to be found in 'Short Breaks in Mordor', my new e-book, not available as a conventional book because conventional publishers didn’t think it was interesting enough. Prove them wrong.

 

It’s available at

http://amzn.to/1lCF9OM (UK)

 

 

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http://amzn.to/T6wyZJ (USA)