Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller

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He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the opal fields of Lightning Ridge. Since then he has trekked all over Australia and to some 60 countries, spending his life trying to satisfy his insatiable appetite for travelling, an addiction that has taken him to wonderful and sometimes dangerous places where he has met all manner of people.

In this book Dominic uses insight and wit and a good dollop of gossip to capture the highlights and lowlights from destinations the world over. Dominic takes readers backstage with Nana Mouskouri in Greece and in search of the ghosts of Elvis Presley in Mississippi. He escapes marauding Americans at Noel Cowards Jamaican sanctuary, crosses cranky guards in North Korea, rubs shoulders with Hillary Clinton in Washington and solves a life-long mystery in Zimbabwe.

And he meets his namesake, the best-selling American author Dominick Dunne, with whom he forges an enduring friendship. Ratings and Reviews 1 2 star ratings 1 reviews. Yes No Thanks for your feedback!

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Perfect for reading in short breaks. Some chapters are detailed descriptions of something - like visiting the home of Noel Coward in Jamaica - and finish with a seemingly random and disconnected paragraph about a conversation with someone he meets on the bus abo This is a book for travellers and those who are interested in stories about places.

Some chapters are detailed descriptions of something - like visiting the home of Noel Coward in Jamaica - and finish with a seemingly random and disconnected paragraph about a conversation with someone he meets on the bus about the band Air Supply which almost acts like a post script. The main part of the chapter provides interesting history about the place and in this case the life of Noel Coward , observations of the people he meets how nobody seems to have heard of the playwright and what it was like to visit Jamaica.

The other way these are like a postcard is that Dominic shares snippets of his life and his feelings about how people treat each other that are very honest.

His comments are the sorts of things you would say to your friends, not strangers. Through this, we learn he has lived an extraordinary life and met some interesting people. He seems like the sort of person you'd love to have at a dinner party. On top of this, I have learned some very interesting things about the world and the people in it.

Feb 16, Shahiron Sahari rated it did not like it. My mistake I guess for thinking it was by the former. The collection of travel pieces was not bad as travel postcards go but the stories are just very slight and really adds nothing to your life or understanding of it. Jul 12, Debbie rated it really liked it. Samantha rated it really liked it Jun 04, Emmy rated it it was ok Oct 16, Donna Heilman rated it it was amazing Sep 24, Janet rated it really liked it Apr 01, Cathie Hughes rated it it was ok Mar 01, Penny rated it it was amazing Dec 01, Talitha Thompson rated it it was ok Feb 27, Helen Smit rated it really liked it Jun 06, Kate rated it it was ok Jul 06, Helen Abel rated it it was ok Jun 12, Roland rated it it was ok Sep 02, Chloe rated it it was ok Sep 13, Alexeena rated it it was ok Dec 28, Kim rated it liked it Sep 06, Matt Wallace rated it it was ok May 02, Jeff rated it it was amazing Mar 30, Wendy rated it liked it Oct 13, John rated it it was ok Jun 05, Amy marked it as to-read Jan 14, May marked it as to-read Jan 22, R H marked it as to-read Jan 28, Natalie marked it as to-read Jun 08, Tamar Wilson-steele marked it as to-read Jun 11, Donna marked it as to-read Aug 16, Tamara marked it as to-read Nov 13, Alaa marked it as to-read Nov 14, Natalie marked it as to-read Jan 16, Landy marked it as to-read Jan 31, Cami Bouchard marked it as to-read Apr 23, Roger marked it as to-read Nov 20, Sophia Maldonado marked it as to-read Feb 01, Rockshell marked it as to-read Mar 13, Mish marked it as to-read Sep 26, Juliet Chamberlain marked it as to-read Jan 04, Pat Agostino added it Jun 16, Archna Jaideep marked it as to-read Oct 30, Jessie Sword marked it as to-read Nov 13, Star is currently reading it Dec 07, Helen Smith marked it as to-read Jan 06, Mei marked it as to-read Feb 07, Mandy is currently reading it Mar 24, Ren marked it as to-read Aug 15, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

Dominick Dunne was an American writer and investigative journalist whose subjects frequently hinged on the ways high society interacts with the judiciary system.

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He was a producer in Hollywood and is also known from his frequent appearances on television. After his studies at Williams College and service in World War II, Dunne moved to New York, then to Hollywood, where he directed Playhouse 90 and Dominick Dunne was an American writer and investigative journalist whose subjects frequently hinged on the ways high society interacts with the judiciary system.

He hobnobbed with the rich and the famous of those days.