Elise Doganieri

I absolutely love this show and I was excited to see this book was coming out. Written by the show's executive producer and co-creator unfortunately, it was not what I was hoping for. It truly is just a travel companion. The book is organized by continent and proceeds to revisit roadblocks and detour that took place in that country, giving (what I thought was most useful) the contact information so that you too could visit this location and try your own luck. A few locations come with a "behind the scenes" which is just some personal reason this location was picked or memory of the author. No anecdotes about things that may have happened that wasn't seen on camera.

There were some interesting information about how many moving parts there are to the filming of this show which was interesting and had a couple of anecdotes of how a wrench was thrown into all the careful planning and came close to impacting the show. Nothing noted about the season that was filmed during that pandemic and needed to be suspended. It would have been really interesting to hear how that was to deal with. But all in all this is a book that would set on my travel guidebook shelf next to my copies of 1000 Things to See (Do) before you Die for when I'm planning a trip.

I want to thank NetGalley and Simon Element for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.… (meer)