There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen. ''Highly entertaining'' - ''The Times''. ''What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness ...Riveting'' - ''Daily Mail''. ''The range of his travels is staggering ...Never less than entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny'' - ''Sunday Telegraph''.