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Robert Young Pelton's The Adventurist is a beautiful short read. Retrospective anecdotes from his childhood and early development are interspersed with anecdotes from the world's Dangerous Places which he so faithfully documented in his acclaimed DP series. The effect of this is a comprehensive view of an adventurist in the making sliced down into vignettes which can be read, rather usefully, when travelling to far-off places. While the content of each episode is itself extremely interesting, the sense of the burning passion for excursion that drives RYP is magnetic in its own right. The pictures of his life are also quite interesting, although they don't serve to explain much. I'd seriously recommend this book either for those who are doing a lot of travelling and need time-filler, or for those who are fans of the DP line or RYP... in which case you've probably already read The Adventurist!

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