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

London, United Kingdom: Pan Bks., 2001. 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. Couple of slight creases to corner of cover.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . 1st Pan Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.