2025
How is it to be a tourist in Yemen, Turkmenistan, Nauru or Mauritania?
Globetrotter Gunnar Garfors has been to all the 198 countries of the world - twice. On his journeys he is driven by curiosity and has met people from many different cultures and societies. Garfors’ mild and open disposition helps him to easily get in touch with locals wherever he is.
In Elsewhere he shares his experiences from the 20 countries people are least likely to travel to, according to his own research around the world. The author skilfully blends his experiences in an easy and entertaining read. You will get close and personal with people, including a very open and cheerful prime minister, the world’s best chocolate maker and a mango farmer from Yemen.
At a time characterized by conflict and war, Garfors wants to inspire us to get to know parts of the world that differ from ours, places that many are reluctant to travel to. A wider understanding of other cultures, faiths and worldviews may change how you perceive the world. Perhaps the globe we live on could become a better and more beautiful place if more of us challenged our comfort zones.
Elsewhere takes you to some of the most facinating places on earth. Enjoy from the safety of your chair or find inspiration to travel elsewhere yourself.
Foreign sales (licensed): Great Britain, Hungary
Ingenstad is both funny, informative and thought-provoking. Most of all, it is a refreshing contrast to the world press's seemingly eternal pursuit of tragedy. It is first-class travel literature that will hopefully make you look at the world through a new filter.
There is a lot of fascinating material here. This must be a man with more than the normal amount of courage.
This book can help give the reader a broader understanding of other cultures, faiths and worldviews and do something about how one sees the world.
We should be grateful that Garfors shares the world with us readers. We gain insight that makes us both happy and sad - but also hopeful. Garfors is a bridge builder who takes us on the journey. I look forward to delving a little deeper into Ingenstad.
Gunnar Garfors
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