Hold the Enlightenment
A Essays, Writing, Humor book. all of us who love the great indoors
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant centipedes in the Congo. Cahill is one of the last great intrepid journalists, and his thirty wildly entertaining essays display sparkling wit and unstinting curiosity. When not on the move, he debunks hoary notions of the kindness of dolphins and ruminates on...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780375713293 / 375713298
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Cahill is an American with a sense of adventure , a sense of humour and a lively writing style. Short travel pieces, all a good blend of facts, figures and fun. I particularly enjoyed "This Teeming Ark" (down the Congo River on a barge), "The Cowpersons of Tanzania" (cattle herders and East Africa) and "The Platypus Hunter" (searching... I read this for my book group...it was not a book I would ordinarily read. While I liked glimpses of out of the way places, the personality of the author rubbed me the wrong way...especially in the title chapter. all of us who love the great indoors
