There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can`t buy a McDonald`s hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world`s wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen.

`Highly entertaining` The Times

`What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness... Riveting` Daily Mail

`The range of his travels is staggering... Never less than entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny` Sunday Telegraph