The Dark Tourist
Sightseeing in the world's most unlikely holiday destinations
$25.58
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2021
Summary
Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection – the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom’s upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472146069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472146069 |
| Author: | Dom Joly |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 196mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Destinations that would make a travel agent go pale
Destinations that would make a travel agent go pale – Sunday Times
… brilliantly funny, irreverent writing with non-sickly compassion for those who live under the most oppressive regimes… a very human travelogue – Country Life
Readability in spades – Scotsman
Intoxicating and hilarious. Like all the best travel writing, it makes you long to be in the seat next to him – John Niven
About The Author
Dom Joly
Best known for his multi-award winning, global-smash-hit comedy series Trigger Happy TV, Dom’s other comedy television credits include This is Dom Joly, World Shut Your Mouth and Fool Britannia.
Dom also makes TV travel shows including Dom Joly’s Happy Hour and Dom Joly’s Excellent Adventure in which he respectively travelled the world drinking too much and went on a mammoth road trip through Lebanon and Syria. His most recent travel series How Beer Changed the World sold to fifty-nine countries.
Dom is also an award-winning travel writer and has visited over a hundred countries. His books include The Dark Tourist, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, The Downhill Hiking Club: A Short Walk Across the Lebanon and Such Miserable Weather: An English Staycation.
His latest book The Conspiracy Tourist, sees him travelling the world hanging out with conspiracy theorists and will be published in November 2023. He will tour the UK in 2024 with a new stage show based on this book.
Dom has appeared on a multitude of shows such as I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, The Island with Bear Grylls, Splash, Pilgrimage and Celebrity Hunted to name but a few.
He has also directed, produced and starred in innumerable adverts and podcasts including an Audible Original American travel series and Earworm, his chart-topping prank phone call podcast.
He has made pop videos for Blur, Ian Brown, Betty Boo, Peter Hook and Deco.
He is a columnist for Cotswold Life and has written extensively for most major newspapers.
He is the voice of Jack FM radio and hosts a regular Sunday radio show- Dom Joly’s Sunday Session 12-2pm.
He is also an ambassador for Save the Children.
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