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Paperback Danziger's Adventures Book

ISBN: 0586090819

ISBN13: 9780586090817

Danziger's Adventures

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From Miami to Kabul

In his remarkable first book, Danziger's Travels, Nick Danziger journeyed incognito through Iran, Afghanistan and China. Now we learn what Danziger did next: more extraordinary episodes as he swings from rags to riches and back again in some of the most outlandish places on earth.
Vivid encounters with the designer yuppies of New York and California are followed by a photographic commission which brings him face to face with a horrific massacre of Kurdish refugees in Turkey - and a narrow escape from death. Returning to Kabul after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, he finds the city under rocket attack by his old friends the mujahedeen, and sees for himself the pointless destruction and terror of the forgotten civil war. He attends the Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral in Tehran, amidst scenes of mass hysteria: goes in search of the Tuareg in Libya; and mingles with would-be 'wetback' immigrants from Tijuana - some of whom literally dig their way into the United States. Finally, he returns once more to Afghanistan - and to the abandoned children in Marastoon mental asylum, Kabul, whom he helps to find a new home.

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Customer Reviews

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An entertaining read

I've read this book twice and throughly enjoyed reading it.I think some of the other reviewers were a little harsh, particuarly the gentleman from the United States, who states that Danziger is of the opinion that "Americans are crass, materialistic, totally ignorant of anything happening outside their borders".I think that the reviewer has a personal axe to bear, but I would say that this opinion is shared by many people throughout the world. Unfortunately, many Americans are ignorant of world Geography. Many Englishman on visiting the US are asked, "where is England is that near Great Britain". This doesn't inspire confidence coming from the worlds only super-power.Passport ownership is low in the US, and relatively few Americans have visited other cultures etc.Please encourage all Americans to travel and perhaps to learn a little more about the world, if they are going to dictate Global policies. This is perhaps the message that Mr Danziger was trying to get across. The US ain't perfect.

A deeper travel book...

Nick Danziger here goes deeper than his previous outing in 'Danziger's Travels'. Again he travels to disparate corners of the globe, but here he focuses more on the people he meets there, and on the wider significance of their lives. The book has some great photos by the author, and ultimately asks the reader to reflect on their place in the global scheme of things. Certainly as a Western reader familiar with some of the places in Britain and abroad he writes about, it is often an uncomfortably truthful read.
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