I love that Terry is generally respectful of the environment and the various local cultures that he encounters. He chronicles his travels and even visits extremely off the beaten path locations. There are also plenty random facts, gossip, or infamous asides about the various locations.
This book documents his travel through Australia / New Zealand, various South Asian countries, North Korea, and the Silk Road. I would totally visit the various places he mentioned based on his descriptions.

I liked Terry’s humorous, snarky writing style. The only thing I missed in the book is hotel reviews. Terry mostly stayed in hostels so there wasn’t much commentary on hotels in the various areas. I would totally read one of his other books about his many travels.

This travel book is packed with interesting tidbits and refreshing honesty about the good and bad in the places visited. Information about things like ugly architecture, wrecked native flora and fauna, and Anne Perry's murderous background is sprinkled in among historical and biological facts, current observations, and opinions on sheep, whaling, and sandflies. And that is just for part of New Zealand! It is sort of a "tell-all" type book for travel, with a few salacious background facts included (I can't recommend it to my students for that reason). The author has traveled to many places that I am unlikely to visit, and I think that he would be a fascinating person to talk with, based on his writing style and many travels!

As I was reading I kept thinking that Terry's writing style reminded me of Bill Bryson. The same humour as well as sometimes scathing commentary, he writes very engagingly about all the places he visits. I liked that he gave a bit of history about every place visited. Fascinating stuff, so many things that were previously unknown.

I recommend this book to all armchair travellers, you will love every minute!

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for providing me with the opportunity to read and review this book.

A really well traveled memoir filled with humor and some history lessons about some of the places he visited along the way. It's definitely not from a rather ridged, stuffy old professor, who'd bore you to death with his tales. It has interesting facts, and interesting tidbits, you might never have heard about. So if you want to take a journey and learn an interesting fact or two, pick up a copy and enjoy.
You won 't be disappointed.