![]() For instance, he discusses what is the best place to eat in a new unknown country, he recommends to eat where the locals eat, not in fancy touristy restaurants. He writes without a care for political correctness (in this day of woke and cancel culture of left liberals). One doesn’t realise what we take as a firm notion but is apparently a much-debated unsettled issue as to what is the definition of a sovereign nation or a country? – so Taiwan, Greenland (world’s largest island not counting Australia as it’s a continent) are not countries as per UN but minute territories like Tuvalu (a bunch of 9 small islands in Pacific that will go under water due to climate change sometime this century), Nauru, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco are countries or even Vatican is a country).Īs a former editor, his wit and humour, just sparkles in his writing. And as the book says, he has travelled to 196 countries, i.e., all the territories that are defined as countries. ![]() The author now an elderly Jewish gentleman but with a colourful life, a lifelong New Yorker, started his travelling in his younger days and never stopped travelling. I haven’t read a more rollicking rip-roaring read like this one in years. I found such a book by Albert Podell, in one of my binge buying of hardbound non-fiction books during an online sale. ![]() ![]() Sometimes one comes across that rare book, one was never looking for, but somehow one got to read. ![]()
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