Off the Beaten Path

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September 16, 2001

Sometimes you can’t separate beauty from brutality in the African bush. Safari guide Mark Ross is still figuring it out.  In 1999, Ross and a group of  tourists were kidnaped by Rwandan rebels. What happened that day changed the rest of his life. Next time on To the Best of Our Knowledge the agonies and ecstasies of life off the beaten path.  Also, Salman Rushdie on fury, and the hidden costs of global tourism.

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Salman Rushdie lives in New York. The day before the terrorist attack, he talked with Steve Paulson about his new book, “Fury.”

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A commentary on terrorism from poet Naomi Shihab Nye.

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Patricia Goldstone talks about how global tourism intended to boost local economies can fuel local prejudice and frustration.

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Mark Ross talks recounts the nightmare of being kidnaped, along with a group of tourists he was guiding, by armed rebels in Uganda.

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Comedian and writer Tony Hawks conceived the daft idea of hitch-hiking around Ireland with a small refrigerator.

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