Carl Hoffman has driven the Baja 1,000, ridden reindeer in Siberia, sailed an open dinghy 250 miles, and traveled to 65 countries. When he's able to stay put for more than a few months at a time, he lives in Washington, D.C., where his three children make fun of him on a pretty constant basis. He is a contributing editor at Wired, National Geographic Traveler and Popular Mechanics, and his stories about travel, adventure and technology have also appeared in Outside, National Geographic Adventure and Men's Journal. He has won four Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers and one North American Travel Journalism Award. He is also the author of Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II.
Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the most rickety trains. The Lunatic Express takes us into the heart of the world, to some its most teeming cities and remotest places: from Havana to Bogotá on the perilous Cuban Airways. Lima to the Amazon on crowded night buses where the road is a washed-out track. Across Indonesia and Bangladesh by overcrowded ferries that kill 1,000 passengers a year. On commuter trains in Mumbai so crowded that dozens perish daily, across Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in, and, scariest of all, Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., by Greyhound.
The Lunatic Express is the story of traveling with seatmates and deckmates who have left home without American Express cards on conveyances that don't take Visa, and seldom take you anywhere you'd want to go. But it's also the story of traveling as it used to be -- a sometimes harrowing trial, of finding adventure in a modern, rapidly urbanizing world and the generosity of poor strangers, from ear cleaners to urban bus drivers to itinerant roughnecks, who make up most of the world's population. More than just an adventure story, The Lunatic Express is a funny, harrowing and insightful look at the world as it is, a planet full of hundreds of millions of people, mostly poor, on the move and seeking their fortunes.
發表於2024-09-09
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其實作者去的非洲,南美,印度,孟加拉,阿富汗,甚至烏魯木齊,濛古和俄羅斯,這些看來很危險的國傢寫起來畫麵感還是有的,就是特煩好像讀者不知道多危險似的,每個地方去完瞭後麵還附上一段當地事故的新聞,特彆受不瞭。很多地方去的人大把,你以為就你去過,用這個當噱頭嚇唬讀者。
評分其實作者去的非洲,南美,印度,孟加拉,阿富汗,甚至烏魯木齊,濛古和俄羅斯,這些看來很危險的國傢寫起來畫麵感還是有的,就是特煩好像讀者不知道多危險似的,每個地方去完瞭後麵還附上一段當地事故的新聞,特彆受不瞭。很多地方去的人大把,你以為就你去過,用這個當噱頭嚇唬讀者。
評分其實作者去的非洲,南美,印度,孟加拉,阿富汗,甚至烏魯木齊,濛古和俄羅斯,這些看來很危險的國傢寫起來畫麵感還是有的,就是特煩好像讀者不知道多危險似的,每個地方去完瞭後麵還附上一段當地事故的新聞,特彆受不瞭。很多地方去的人大把,你以為就你去過,用這個當噱頭嚇唬讀者。
評分其實作者去的非洲,南美,印度,孟加拉,阿富汗,甚至烏魯木齊,濛古和俄羅斯,這些看來很危險的國傢寫起來畫麵感還是有的,就是特煩好像讀者不知道多危險似的,每個地方去完瞭後麵還附上一段當地事故的新聞,特彆受不瞭。很多地方去的人大把,你以為就你去過,用這個當噱頭嚇唬讀者。
評分其實作者去的非洲,南美,印度,孟加拉,阿富汗,甚至烏魯木齊,濛古和俄羅斯,這些看來很危險的國傢寫起來畫麵感還是有的,就是特煩好像讀者不知道多危險似的,每個地方去完瞭後麵還附上一段當地事故的新聞,特彆受不瞭。很多地方去的人大把,你以為就你去過,用這個當噱頭嚇唬讀者。
The Lunatic Express 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載