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No Holiday: 80 Places You Don’t Want to Visit
September 11, 2006 | Comments Off
Staff picks from Get Lost (travel books, maps, and gear)
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No Holiday: 80 Places You Don’t Want to Visit . . .
Martin Cohen, The Disinformation Co., Ltd., $16.95, paperback.
“Lonely Planet publishes The Blue List, a compilation of the best and most happening travel destinations. No Holiday: 80 Places You Don’t Want to Visit . . . is The Blue List’s opposite…. Continent by continent, No Holiday visits sites of massacres (El Mozote, El Salvador and Rwanda), abandoned chemical weapons tests (San Jose Island, Panama), extreme animal cruelty (Spain and Norway) and flattened towns (Quneitra, Syria). But a place doesn’t have to be ugly or dangerous to get a listing. The shiny new, $130 million airport at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is an example of misplaced priorities and corruption in one of the world’s poorest countries. None of it is pretty, but No Holiday reminds us there is another way to see the world.”