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Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler ebook

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Peters recounts with wit and honesty the year he spent struggling to make a survival television show. From Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, he visits many fascinating cultures, eats and sleeps with them, and very nearly doesn't survive at all. 4 people like this topic

Peters recounts with wit and honesty the year he spent struggling to make a survival television show. 4 people like this topic.

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The book mocks this premise more than celebrates it, though Peters seems genuinely proud of his . Naked in Dangerous Places is a running riot. Cash Peters has none of these attributes.

The book mocks this premise more than celebrates it, though Peters seems genuinely proud of his work at times. His tone is consistently cynical and self-deprecating, occasionally spiking into the manic. Tony Cohan, author of On Mexican Time and Mexican Days Peters is a national treasure, with a wicked sense of humor that guarantees he’ll never be asked to host a television show again. But he is very, very funny, and his misadventures in exotic locales make for the best travel writing I have read in years.

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Finally, after years as a struggling radio host, Cash Peters has been given his own TV adventure show on a big-time travel network. Finally, after years as a struggling radio host, Cash Peters has been given his own TV adventure show on a big-time travel network. The idea is simple: "Let's dump him in an unfamiliar culture in a faraway land with no money and no place to stay, and see what happens. Unfortunately, there is one major problem: Cash doesn't want to go.

Naked in Dangerous Places is the story of one man’s efforts to remain sane in an insane world

Naked in Dangerous Places is the story of one man’s efforts to remain sane in an insane world. Told with wit and shameless honesty, it documents a yearlong journey through exotic lands, from Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, as Cash drops in on fascinating cultures, eating, drinking, even sleeping in cow-dung huts with the locals, and eventually proving the truth of the old saying What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. We're committed to providing low prices every day, on everything.

com's Cash Peters Author Page. Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler Apr 18, 2009.

Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler - Cash Peters. Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire - Simon Winchester. The Art of Travel - Alain De Botton. I created a version for the MR library.

Naked in dangerous places. The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler. For viewers at home, Peters was the lone traveler, charging into a world of risk-laden adventure. But as he points out, with cameramen, field technicians and field producers, I can't possibly be alone.

Finally, after years as a struggling radio host, Cash Peters has been given his own TV adventure show on a big-time travel network. The idea is simple: “Let’s dump him in an unfamiliar culture in a faraway land with no money and no place to stay, and see what happens.” Unfortunately, there is one major problem: Cash doesn’t want to go. Not only is he NOT the adventurous type, he is afraid of nearly everything and horribly allergic to the rest. Bottom line: they’ve given the show to the wrong guy.Naked in Dangerous Places is the story of one man’s efforts to remain sane in an insane world. Told with wit and shameless honesty, it documents a yearlong journey through exotic lands, from Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, as Cash drops in on fascinating cultures, eating, drinking, even sleeping in cow-dung huts with the locals, and eventually proving the truth of the old saying “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Though, to be honest, killing you is more likely.

Makaitist

There are some travel writers -- Jerome K. Jerome, Bill Bryson, Cash Peters -- who can combine evocative descriptions, fascinating information, and keen observations into memoirs of their trips that make us either plan to go ourselves or feel that we don't need to. This book is partly about traveling around the world under very weird circumstances, and partly about the rise and fall of a TV show.

The travel sections are funny and provide a very personal glimpse into places most of us won't have the opportunity to visit. This is where the book shines.

The story of the TV show reads a lot like someone telling his side of the story. For those of us who've never heard the other side of the story, that's of limited interest. Peters chronicles some entertaining experiences in TV land -- itself a place where most of us will never go -- and some significant personal growth, but much of this part of the book just seems to hold up the action.

I'm sorry I missed the show -- I bet it was great. Maybe a DVD collection could be the next project?

Reemiel

Being a fan of travel books generally, I enjoyed 'Naked in Dangerous Places' so much more than others I have read. Cash Peters gives you an insight into what places as diverse as Dubai, Cambodia, Morocco and Alaska are like for the independent traveller. The link between locations is the TV show 'Stranded' which Cash presented and this adds another dimension to the book. Parts of it are very funny and the irony of the scene where he really is 'stranded'at Heathrow airport is not lost on the reader. I loved this book so much, I went and read 'Gullibles Travels' again, an earlier book of his. Both are perfect holiday reading!

Teonyo

I saw this book in an airport bookstore, read the summary, and immediately searched my kindle store for it. Cash has me dream job, to travel for a profession, so I was intrigued to read how this somewhat uncommitted traveler handled his assignments. He was funny, witty, and I actually learned a good bit in a painless way about foci of history and geography. I plan to watch the series as well. Cash is a very good writer, and this was a thoroughly enjoyable read.

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Cash Peters has here assembled a delicatessen of travel anecdotes from two seasons of a travel show he hosted on a US cable network. So by now you are either running for the hills or already have your interest piqued.

The `pitch' here beyond the usual `look at my charmed life plebs' morass it could have descended into is that Peters insists he is not an adventurous person. He has a range of phobias and a range of special dietary requirements and is far from the sort of person who you would assume would be roped in to host such a show. And it is this very fish out of water aspect that creates much of the story here and certainly much of the humorous content.

We hear issues with Peters trying to get his show off the ground (though thankfully this is covered very briefly) and the author uses a very conversational and self deprecating style of prose to then regale the reader with some of the pitfalls of life on the road in places - some of which are not yet geared for the modern Western tourist shall we say.

Avid consumers of travel literature will probably like this as there is a certain charm to hearing of a distinctly unadventurous chap being put again and again into situations that don't really suit him. Yet he bumbles his way through again and again and seems to genuinely understand how lucky he was to have had this amazing experience.

What took much of the shine off it was however the constant bleating about his phobias. You could see why his team were sometimes exasperated with him. And indeed by the books end he has come to an understanding about this too. Also the whining and negativity seemed just too much, it wasn't balanced by enough up vibe stuff. And anyone wanting to learn anything but the most superficial of things about the places the show visited will be disappointed. In fact there is precious little of interest discussed in terms of the places he visited in general outside of discussing the problems with it or some anecdote about something that happened there. It does occur but just not enough for my taste.

Probably an excellent thing to pack before your own next business trip or long haul flight.

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