Well, since we are running through "Travel books Ken has just read", may I add "No Shitting in the Toilet" by Peter Moore. The author seems like the sort of guy who would bum a spare bunk (or some floor space in cargo) in a Type S between two backwater Class D starports.

The Jetlag crew wrote two other guidebooks, dredging up the usual stereotypes about SouthEast Asian and then Caribbean/Central American travel. Some great parts, but would start to get same-same by the end. Molvania is probably the best as inspiration for Traveller plots and colour.

Cheers!

Ken

On 16 February 2017 at 11:17, Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll recommend Holidays in Hell by P.J. O'Rourke.
On Feb 15, 2017 7:21 AM, "Timothy Collinson" <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
On 15 February 2017 at 02:56, Douglas Berry <dberry49xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
We went to a travel show last weekend, and i picked up a fun book. Which should a gold mine for adventure and setting ideas.

It's "Don't Go There - The Travel Detective's Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World"

Disease, corruption, crime, foul dens and dangerous roads. If you can't dress a dozen backwater worlds from this book, you ain't trying.

Thanks for the tip. Now looking that out.

In a not too dissimilar vein, I can recommend:
Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch

You may be able to detect from the title (and the branding: jetlag travel guide) that this is essentially a spoof of all those travel guides that festoon certain shelves in bookshops. As Bill Bryson says on the cover, it's very very funny.

And, again, if you can't extract grist for your Traveller world building mill from it, you're not trying!

Also, someone over on Facebook I think it was, mentioned National Geographic's _Interstellar: The Science & Secrets of Solar Systems_. I thought it was proving rather hard to find (small newsagent near work, Amazon, internet, large book buying database I have access to at work) but I've just wandered into my small village which has a newsagent with a pretty decent magazine collection and it was there. Not cheap at £7.99 but some terrific images (as you'd expect), some interesting descriptions of various system features you could easily drop into a scouting expedition or whathaveyou, and maybe just a tiny bit less science than I might have hoped for from the title (though it's not bad) - maybe I'm just spoiled by some game books!

Hope this helps

tc

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