Jaguars ripped my flesh : adventure is a risky business

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. From the Trade Paperback edition. "Engine trouble in Patagonia. Sadistic troopers in Peru. Document hell in Colombia. Ice-slick highways in Alaska. These are some of the perils that Tim Cahill braved in the course of driving the 15,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay in a record-breaking twenty-three and a half days, all in a valiant attempt to find out how far you can go -- and how fast you can get there. Cahill documents this epic road trip in a fiercely adrenal and breathlessly funny book that tells us everything we ever wanted to know about low-budget counterterrorism: what the psychic effects of a diet of beef jerky and Farmer's milk shakes are; and how professional adventurers can coax General Motors and The Guinness Book of World Records into subsidizing their high-school wanderlust." -- Page 4 of cover

Tim Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty three and a half days.

With the high-octane humor, infallible radar for the absurd, and post-punk sensibility that have made him the premier adventure writer of our time, Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska--accomplished in a record-breaking 23 1/2 days.

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.

In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny. From the wastes of Antarctica to the blazing oil fields of Kuwait, and from an evening of demonic possession in Bali to a session on Guatemala's Throne of Terror, "Pecked to Death by Ducks" is a grand tour of the earth's remote, exotic and dismal places. The author presents amusing accounts of his adventures around the world, which include poisonous sea snake harvests in the Philippines, a feast of baked turtle lung in Australia, and encounters with gorillas, porcupines, and sharks Cahill is great! He is the P.J. O'Rourke of the outdoors! Fearless and hell-bent on overcoming all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to the oddest and scariest adventures nature has to offer. The author describes his twenty-three-day, fifteen-thousand-mile journey from Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point in South America, to the Arctic Circle in a pickup truck There is something a bit bumid about the picture, something moist and mysterious, something vaguely erotic and tangled and malarial. THERE WERE ABOUT three thousand of us for dinner that night at the Bally Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Presents a collection of short adventure stories from the author's worldwide journeys Two fourteen-year-old rock climbers, Jim Deering and Ryan Angus, were stranded. Around thirty short essays on the author's world travels