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June 12, 2008

‘Non-Traditional Destinations’

Mansudae Statue of Kim Il SungNice definition? I’ve always enjoyed travelling to unusual places, like North Korea which I wrote about in my book Bad Lands. Recently I’ve been to Haiti and Colombia and you can read an essay I wrote on those sort of destinations in GOOD Magazine and check their selection of five places ‘you didn’t think had tourists,’

The gigantic Mansudae statue of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea


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26 May Books on Haiti ›
10 March Tales from the Torrid Zone – Alexander Frater ›
17 February The Ghost - Robert Harris ›
4 February Aircraft - The Jet as Art - Jeffrey Milstein ›
23 January Mr Pip – Lloyd Jones ›
7 January Books of 2007 ›
16 December The Bottom Billion ›
2 December Occupying Iraq, Liberating Ethiopia ›
26 August Bad Lands ... and Bad Lands II? ›
24 December Books of 2006 ›
26 December Books of 2005 ›
26 October My Books & Articles ›
25 October My Photos ›
11 October Books for Lonely Planet ›
6 October Books for other Publishers ›