تعطیلات در جهنم: تجربه‌های ترسناک یک خبرنگار جنگی در تعطیلات

Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands. The collection begins after the Iraq War, when P.J. retired from being a war correspondent because he was "too old to keep being scared stiff and too stiff to keep sleeping on the ground." Instead he embarked on supposedly more comfortable and allegedly less dangerous travels - often with family in tow - which mostly left him wishing he were under artillery fire again. The result is a hilarious and oftentimes moving portrait of life in the fast lane - only this time as a husband and father of three. Adventures include: - The first stag hunt in Britain after hunting had been banned. If the British had been half as caring about Indians and American colonists as they are about animals, they'd still rule the world. - A month-long tour of mainland China's economic hubs where P.J. learned that the entire Chinese concept of political freedom and individual liberty can be summed up in the words, 'New Buick'. - A harrowing horseback ride across the mountains of Kyrgyzstan - no towns, no roads, no people. "If something happened to my horse it would be shot. For me, the medical treatment wouldn't be that sophisticated." A Follow-up To Holidays In Hell Collects Classic Travel Pieces Written Throughout The Author's Post-retirement Years, A Period Marked By His Haphazard Journeys With And Without Family To Such Regions As China, Kyrgyzstan, And America. Introduction. A Former War Correspondent Experiences Frightening Vacation Fun -- Republicans Evolving : The Galápagos Islands, April 2003 -- Monumnetal [i.e. Monumental] Generations : The National World War Ii Memorial, Washington, D.c., June 2004 -- Round On The Ends And Hi! In The Middle : Ohio Skiing, February 2005 -- Riding To The Hounds Versus Going To The Dogs : Britain After The Hunting Ban, March 2005 -- My Eu Vacation : Reading The European Constitution On A French Beach, Guadaloupe, May 2005 -- On First Looking Into The Airbus A380 : Toulouse, June 2005 -- If You Think Modern Life Is Awful, You Haven't Seen Modern Art : Venice Biennale, July 2005 -- My Wife's Got A Gun : Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006 -- A Freedom Ride Through China : Spring 2006 -- Side Trip Up The Yangtze : June 2006 -- A Horse Of A Different Color : Kyrgyzstan, July 2006 -- Sweet-and-sour Children And Twice-fried Parents To Go : Hong Kong, December 2007 -- The Big Stick, Or Why I Voted For John Mccain : Uss Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008 -- White Man Speak With Forked Tongue : The Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008 -- The Decline And Fall Of Tomorrow : Disneyland, June 2008 -- A Journey To-- Let's Not Go There : Summer 2008 -- The Seventy-two-hour Afghan Expert : Kabul, July 2010 -- Capital Gains : Washington, D.c., August 2010 -- Home Unalone : New Hampshire, March 2011. P.j. O'rourke. The Follow-up To The Classic Holidays In Hell. The long-awaited follow up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke's Holidays in Heck is the middle-aged version of his classic travel pieces, featuring journeys to China, Venice, the UK and beyond.