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Danziger's Adventures: From Miami to Kabul

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Nick Danziger here goes deeper than his previous outing in 'Danziger's Travels'. Again he travels to disparate corners of the globe, but here he focuses more on the people he meets there, and on the wider significance of their lives. The book has some great photos by the author, and ultimately asks the reader to reflect on their place in the global scheme of things. Certainly as a Western reader familiar with some of the places in Britain and abroad he writes about, it is often an uncomfortably truthful read.

A sequel to Nick Danziger's original story of travels through Afghanistan and other foreign lands, the book was unmoving. This work seems to be an attempt to capitalize on the limited success of his previous work but fails to capture the excitement or imagination of a true journey.

This is a somewhat disappointing follow up to "Danzinger's Travels" which utterly lacks the cohesiveness and compelling tale of that earlier book. There are interesting tidbits here and there as the author skips back and forth from Afghanistan to the luxury lecture circuit, with occasional forays into Tijuana and New York life, but for the most part I was left unmoved. There are some horrifying first-person accounts of the tragedy in Afghanistan, and an interesting chapter about Ayatollah Khomeni's funeral, but one's time is better spent skipping most of these musings.

I've read this book twice and throughly enjoyed reading it.

I think some of the other reviewers were a little harsh, particuarly the gentleman from the United States, who states that Danziger is of the opinion that "Americans are crass, materialistic, totally ignorant of anything happening outside their borders".

I think that the reviewer has a personal axe to bear, but I would say that this opinion is shared by many people throughout the world.

Unfortunately, many Americans are ignorant of world Geography. Many Englishman on visiting the US are asked, "where is England is that near Great Britain". This doesn't inspire confidence coming from the worlds only super-power.

Passport ownership is low in the US, and relatively few Americans have visited other cultures etc.

Please encourage all Americans to travel and perhaps to learn a little more about the world, if they are going to dictate Global policies. This is perhaps the message that Mr Danziger was trying to get across.

The US ain't perfect.