Gullible's Travels by John Carter

Gullible's Travels by John Carter

Gullible's Travels - behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes from John Carter, presenter of BBC's Holiday and ITV's Wish You Were Here.? programmes, from shopping in Macy's and travelling on Concorde to accidentally encountering Sophia Loren. True stories set down in print for the first time after almost 30 years on British TV screens.

'Veteran reporter and TV presenter John Carter was once told that a bona fide 'traveller's tale' should be 100 per cent true and 99 per cent unbelievableAfter almost six decades of globetrotting, Carter has plenty such tales to tell, and he sets out in this collection a little over 30 of his favourites. He offers amusing glimpses behind the curtain of the travel industry, relates encounters with royals and film stars, skewers the more odious traits of British holidaymakers, reveals conflicted feelings about the mass tourism that he himself helped engender and paints a vivid picture of the golden age of Fleet Street journalism. A delightful read.' Richard Tarrant, Lady Magazine 'It's an excellent guidebook to Sardinia before the Aga Khan discovered it, communist Bulgaria in the 1960s, Teheran during the time of the Shah... Above all, Gullible's Travels shows how an excellent jaunt isn't about the quality of the destination's tourist offerings but its people. It's whom you meet and the conversations you have that count.' The Oldie

John Carter is one of the UK's best known travel journalists and presenters, having worked for nearly thirty years on programmes such as ITV's Wish You Were Here.? and the BBC's Holiday. He has travelled the world for over half a century on behalf of newspapers, magazines, radio and television programmes in a professional life that has been crammed with incidents and encounters, many of which never made it to the printed page or television screen. Now, for the first time, he has set those stories down on paper.

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ISBN 13	9781784770327
ISBN 10	1784770329
Title	Gullible's Travels
Author	John Carter
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bradt Travel Guides
Year published	2016-07-06
Number of pages	244
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