Evan S. Rice

If you like quirky trivia books, this is a great one. It includes lots of helpful tips for the aspiring globetrotter, as well as some truly off-the-wall tidbits (did you know that the shortest regularly scheduled commercial flight is less than 2 miles, and can take as little as 47 seconds with a good tailwind?)
It loses half a star from me because the book is laid out in a very meandering, stream of consciousness way, which would make it a bit annoying to use as a real reference guide, since show more you'd constantly be flipping to the index. show less