Pass the Butterworms

Pass the Butterworms
Author: Tim Cahill
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2011-03-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0307778401

In Pass the Butterworms Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in 36-degree water; to Irian Jaya New Guinea, where he spends a companionable evening with members of one of the last head-hunting tribes. Whether observing family values among the Stone Age Dani people, or sampling delicacies like sautéed sago beetle and premasticated manioc beer, Cahill is a fount of arcane information and a master of self-deprecating humor.

Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered

Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
Author: Tim Cahill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1997
Genre: Adventure and adventurers
ISBN:

These accounts of unusual travels encompass a ride on an unshod pony galloping through Mongolia, swimming (briefly) 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.

Going Places

Going Places
Author: Robert Burgin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 161069385X

Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
Author: Tim Cahill
Publisher: Black Swan
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2012
Genre: Travelers' writings, American
ISBN: 9780552778787

Tim Cahill has clambered up Mount Roraima in the Guyana highlands, searching for the site of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. He's dined on baked turtle lung in the desolate northeast of Australia and harvested poisonous sea snakes in the Philippines. He's watched a wrestling match between a shark and an "underwater zombie" during a horror movie shoot off the coast of Mexico. In this classic collection of adventure travel writing, Tim Cahill writes evocatively and often hilariously about these close encounters. He also briefs us on gorilla etiquette, porcupine vendettas, and the loathsome fate awaiting those who disturb ruins in the jungles of the Amazon. JAGUARS RIPPED MY FLESH is an exhilarating roller-coaster of a book, by a writer who gives new meaning to the expression "going to extremes".

Road Fever

Road Fever
Author: Tim Cahill
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0307809374

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.

The Best American Travel Writing 2001

The Best American Travel Writing 2001
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780618118786

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

Pecked to Death by Ducks

Pecked to Death by Ducks
Author: Tim Cahill
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2003
Genre: Adventure stories, American
ISBN: 0552771600

Tim Cahill sleeps with grizzly bears. He also treks with llamas, inches his way through the deepest cave in America, and assesses the cuteness quotient of giant clams in the South Pacific - all in the service of some of the most lively, nerve-wracking, an

Hungry Planet

Hungry Planet
Author: Faith d' Aluisio
Publisher: Material World
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781580088695

Provides an overview of what families around the world eat by featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries with a week's supply of food.

A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance

A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2001-02-21
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0743221893

The Authentic Journey Continues -- for Women to Understand Men, and for Men to Understand Themselves.