Description
The Irresponsible Traveller - Travel literature collection of travels gone awry including stories by top travel writers and celebrities on the roads less travelled. This guide includes tales by Michael Palin, Ben Fogle and Simon Calder as well as other stories of adventurous, off-the-beaten-track travels, ideal holiday reading, travel inspiration.
'A fitting way to celebrate this intrepid publisher's 40th anniversary' Wanderlust Magazine 'A tongue-in-cheek collection covering disasters that have happened to travel writers - but did not make it into the official guidebooks.' Bookseller 'These stories are not the stuff travel brochures are made of, and are all the truer for it.' National Geographic Traveller 'One of the most delightful travel books to be published in a generation. It reminds us that the joy of travel lies in the thrill of discovery when things, thankfully, don't go to plan.' Travel Africa Magazine
The title is a collection of true tales about sticky situations told by a number of travel writers and travel celebrities.