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"What's the strangest thing you've ever seen or experienced?"
Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Everyone has a story, and some are truly extraordinary.
Strange Tales of World Travel recounts 50 of these Bizarre, Mysterious, Horrible, Hilarious encounters, including:
-Daring Diplomat, who ate the flesh of the venomous cobra bird in the Sahara Desert
-Pearl Trader, who survived a fever through a harrowing "human" honey treatment in Oman
-Agent Ghost, who was shot and left to die in a garbage dump in Africa
-Death-Defying Instagrammer, who stepped on the tail of the world's sixth most venomous snake in Australia to take a better photo
-Human Pet, who became a prince's prisoner in Qatar
-Imperial CEO, who made a minion fly twelve hours to Paris from Abu Dhabi to buy clean underwear
-Gorilla Doll, who broke the rules of visiting Rwandan gorillas and got dragged up the side of a volcano
-Strange Tales of World Travel presents unforgettable stories that celebrate the unique character of countries around the globe-and the distinctive characters that make travel endlessly intriguing and exhilarating.
Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Everyone has a story, and some are truly extraordinary.
Strange Tales of World Travel recounts 50 of these Bizarre, Mysterious, Horrible, Hilarious encounters, including:
-Daring Diplomat, who ate the flesh of the venomous cobra bird in the Sahara Desert
-Pearl Trader, who survived a fever through a harrowing "human" honey treatment in Oman
-Agent Ghost, who was shot and left to die in a garbage dump in Africa
-Death-Defying Instagrammer, who stepped on the tail of the world's sixth most venomous snake in Australia to take a better photo
-Human Pet, who became a prince's prisoner in Qatar
-Imperial CEO, who made a minion fly twelve hours to Paris from Abu Dhabi to buy clean underwear
-Gorilla Doll, who broke the rules of visiting Rwandan gorillas and got dragged up the side of a volcano
-Strange Tales of World Travel presents unforgettable stories that celebrate the unique character of countries around the globe-and the distinctive characters that make travel endlessly intriguing and exhilarating.
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Reviews
"The entire point of travel is to encounter the unimaginable. Gina and Scott Gaille have collected some of the most remarkable tales to ever see the light of day. A hoot to read."
J. Maarten Troost, author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals
"This book contains some of the most astonishing tales I've ever encountered. One after another. They make for obsessive reading."
Tim Cahill, author of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
"Damn! I thought my book had the strangest bunch of true travel tales under the sun, but the Gailles' collection leaves me in the dust. Maybe even obliterated in a Sahara sandstorm."
Albert Podell, New York Times best-selling author of Around the World in 50 Years