Hold the Enlightenment

Name: Hold the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780375713293

ISBN-10: 0375713298

ISBN-13: 9780375713293

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Authors: Tim Cahill

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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 religion, death and the perplexing phenomenon of yoga. Charming, incisive and absolutely fearless, Cahill is the perfect travel…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.94" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Unattractive to the Opposite Sex: An Introduction


Hold the Enlightenment


The Search for the Caspian Tiger


Bug Scream


The Platypus Hunter


Fire and Ice and Everything Nice


The Caravan of White Gold


The Terrible Land


The House of Boots


This Teeming Ark


Near Massacre Ranch


Fubsy Hors D'oeuvres


Gorillas in Our Schools


Powder Keg


The Entranced Duck


Castle and More Castles


Culinary Schadenfreude


Swimming with Great White Sharks


Atlatl Bob's Splendid Lack of Simple Sanity


Stutter


Fully Unprepared


Evilfish


The World's Most Dangerous Friend


Collision Course


The Big Muddy


Professor Cahill's Travel 101


The Cowpersons of Tanzania


My Brother, the Pot Dealer


Dirty Money


Panic


Trusty and Grace