Simon Reeve is a TV presenter and author whose face keeps popping up on travel shows through obscure regions of the world and I like his no fuss style of presentation and personable style. This book seems to be made up of two distinct halves. The first is about his growing up and teenage years which were interesting as he suffered from depression, and spent some time being a real delinquent breaking into buildings, being destructive and hanging out with other rough kids.
The second half of this memoir is about how he ended up being a presenter for BBC documentaries which was interesting. He has traveled to lots of isolated and dangerous countries. His description of a few of the places they were expected to stay in were just horrendous. Mould growing out of the pillow doesn't entice me to want to travel there. At least someone else does and films these places to show us the world beyond our borders. 4/5
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I always look at conditions in other places as being more normal, and our places being the more fortunate ones. Much of the world can't attain the standards we have, unfortunately.
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