Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered by Tim Cahill
The latest of Tim Cahill's fearless adventure travels, wholly in the spirit of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh and Pecked to Death by Ducks. Tim Cahill doesn't travel like other people, which is how he finds himself on the back of an unshod pony running at a stamping gallop through Mongolia, kayaking in Alaska in the face of a calving glacier, swimming (briefly, oh so briefly) in the waters below the ice at the North Pole and debating with a Dani herdsman in New Guinea the most fashionable style of penis sheath and how to grow one. Great travel writing is not only about place but about people and Cahill is at his exuberant best when extraordinary places are filled with extraordinary folk: the pacific rangers who paddle bullet-proof canoes into raging storm waves clad in grey body armour for camouflage because they don't want to be rescued by the coastguard; the competitive spear fishermen of Southern Peru; the warring Indians of the upper Amazon; the pilots who pretend to have heart attacks mid-flight so that their passengers can learn how to cope in an emergency. This is real travel: vigorous, risky, sensitive, observant and full of life.Tim Cahill is the author of four previous collections of travel writing, all published by Fourth Estate: Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, A Wolverine is Eating My Leg, Road Fever and Pecked to Death by Ducks. He also wrote a gripping study of serial killer John Wayne Gacey: Buried Dreams.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857026535 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857026535 |
| Title | Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered |
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1998-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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