Description: From the notorious columnist for Outside Magazine comes a collection of his candid and humorous travel and adventure stories. Ranging all over the globe, and operating firmly in the tradition of the irreverent but decidedly intrepid trav...
Synopsis From the notorious columnist for Outside Magazine comes a collection of his candid and humorous travel and adventure stories. Ranging all over the globe, and operating firmly in the tradition of the irreverent but decidedly intrepid traveler, Tim Cahill watches the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, confronts sharks, goes spelunking, contemplates the sad plight of the gorillas in Rwanda--and much more in a book that is both entertaining and informative.
Details
Publication Date:
1996-04-01
Series:
Vintage Departures
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Length:
306 pages
Height:
8.5 in
Width:
5.5 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
8.8 oz
Publisher's Note The author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Pecked to Death by Ducks gives new meaning to the words "going to extremes" in this exhilarating--and frequently hilarious--collection of adventure travel writing. "Cahill . . . (writes) with the precision ofJohn McPhee and Joan Didion tempered by a Monty Pythonesque sense of the absurd."--San Diego Union-Tribune.
Industry Reviews "His first-person stories range in tone from awe-struck descriptions of the beauty of the Chachapoyan ruins in the Andes to slightly muddled recollections of a sweet drink made from fermented sugar cane juice....His humorous accounts...retain their appeal." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Charles Solomon (06/02/1996)