Gina and Scott Gaille

“This book contains some of the most astonishing tales I’ve ever encountered. One after another. They make for obsessive reading.” —Tim Cahill, author of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

“The entire point of travel is to encounter the unimaginable. Gina and Scott Gaille have collected some of the most remarkable tales to ever see the light of day. A hoot to read.” —J. Maarten Troost, author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen or experienced?

Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Strange Tales of World Travel recounts 50 of these amazing encounters, including:

• Daring Diplomat, who ate the flesh of the venomous cobra bird in the Sahara Desert
• Pearl Trader, who survived a fever through a harrowing "human honey" treatment in Oman
• Agent Ghost, who was shot and left to die in a garbage dump in Africa
• Death-Defying Instagrammer, who stepped on the tail of the world’s sixth most venomous snake in Australia to take a better photo
• Human Pet, who became a prince’s prisoner in Qatar
• Imperial CEO, who made a minion fly twelve hours to Paris from Abu Dhabi to buy clean underwear
• Gorilla Doll, who broke the rules of visiting Rwandan gorillas and got dragged up the side of a volcano