TRAVEL WATCH: NOVEMBER 8, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 18

Off the Shelf

	ALSO IN TIME
	Cushy Nepal Adventures Glorious memories--and no malaria Detour If Danang sounds familiar, it's because Asia's newest holiday destination is really an old favorite Web Crawling Mid-price accommodation is available--if you know where to look Off the Shelf Pelton would make a great traveling companion, but you probably shouldn't let him choose the destination

Come Back Alive
By Robert Young Pelton
(Doubleday; 288 pages)

Pelton would make a great traveling companion, but given his penchant for the bizarre and the dangerous, you probably shouldn't let him choose the destination. Come Back Alive is crammed with information about situations most people, we hope, will never encounter. Still, it's a fun read--and Pelton's advice would undoubtedly come in handy if you are ever kidnapped (befriend your captors), if your plane crashes (wear wool in case of fire) or if you're obliged to subsist on creepy-crawlies (earthworms are richest in protein).