SIMPSON, JOHN - A Mad World, My Masters, Tales from a Traveller's Life

London, United Kingdom, Pan Bks., 2001. 1st Pan Edition, Binding: Softcover, Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0330355678 Paperback Paperback. This book, John Simpon's second volume of autobiographical writing, is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places and the unusual characters that inhabit them. Simpson transports his readers on an extraordinary world tour that includes doging guerrillas at a cocaine market in Colombia, narrowly escaping a murderous Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and filming undercover in Lebanon with a mad French cameraman. Simpson's travels uncover small heroes and big villains, spies and secret police everywhere, resourceful fixers and even the occasional icon. A master of storytelling, he delivers some hilarious moments. Discover how it feels to moon the Queen, ask an ex-head of state if he is a cannibal and realize that a worldwide scoop may have been ruined by a flatulent Colonel Gadhafi. Illustrated. 436 pp.