[.ca] Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys through the ... (ISBN 1592281001)

A must of the armchair traveller....:
Not exactly LP, but it tells stories of two places that been extremely dangerous and one that still is.in SL conflict(the hunter) was fuelled by greed, diamonds made many Lebanese come to SL and the become rich on trading, MEA (middle east airlines) flew in several of their big passenger planes to rescue it's citizens, SL isn't a tourist resort nowadays like The Gambia today, but still not extremely dangerous. Bougainville (the Heaven) was Oz mining company property until the fighting drove them of the island, PNG gov tried to recruit SA mercs to "conquer" the island and start mining again, but it failed badly. Chechenya (the Hammer) was also about greed, in this case oil-pipelines from Azerbadjian. The late Chechen leader Dubajev was a former Soviet airforce general that was married to an Estonian lady, he stopped a carnage in the Baltic states planned by hard-liners. The Russians was later upset by the Estonians because the gave away 3 plane loads of roubles to the Chechens (arranged by Georgia) that the Russians refused to take as payment for oil deliveries, the money came when Estonia changed currency from the Soviet rouble to the Estonian Kroon. 3 stories about where everything gone haywire, but in two cases the violence have halted, at least temporary...