Safe travel and how to avoid it
A vastly entertaining account of the weird places and situations Barrie Condon has encountered over a life of global travel, driven by insatiable curiosity and total lack of common sense.
From coitus interruptus by death squad in Pinochet’s Chile, through Rio’s dangerous favelas, to terrifying cock-ups that could destroy a whole port, Barrie Condon’s journeys only get more incredible.
With remarkable insight, he describes bizarre, baffling ways of living and the contorted existences of people who live in the only way they can, by economic or political necessity. In vivid, often hilarious, passages, he reminds us that our comfortable life is sheer luck.
The tone is conversational throughout, engaging the reader directly in a sociable, friendly but unsentimental manner, then suddenly lyrical in describing natural beauty in sparing, delicately precise language.
