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Hold the Enlightenment : More Travel, Less Bliss by Tim Cahill (2002, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Travel
- Literary Movement
- Enlightenment
- Signed By
- N/A
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- N/A
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Edition
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780375507663
- Book Title
- Hold the Enlightenment : more Travel, Less Bliss
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Travel
- Topic
- General, Essays & Travelogues
- Item Weight
- 19.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375507663
ISBN-13
9780375507663
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2306724
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hold the Enlightenment : more Travel, Less Bliss
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Travel
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-074263
Reviews
Praise for Tim Cahill "Tim Cahill is the working-class Paul Theroux. . . . He delights in finding stories too peculiar to be labeled merely off-beat." -The New York Times "Tim Cahill is one of those rare types whose fun quotient seems to increase in direct proportion to the diceyness of the situation." -San Francisco Examiner "Tim Cahill has the what-the-hell adventuresomeness of T. E. Lawrence and the humor of P. J. O'Rourke." -Condé Nast Traveler "Tim Cahill writes a wonderfully funny and observant book." -USA Today "Tim Cahill lives the life of adventure we all wanted when we were kids." -The Village Voice "Cahill's writing gets better all the time, his storytelling style evolving into an art form, his cracking-wiseass humor bevelled by every manner of nuance." -Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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 companion., InHold the Enlightenment, America's favorite and funniest adventure writer returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet, as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical-and human. Hold the Enlightenmenttakes Tim Cahill to sites as far-flung as Saharan salt mines, the Congolese jungle, and Hanford, Washington, home of the largest toxic-waste dump in the Western hemisphere. With his trademark wit and insight, Cahill describes stalking the legendary Caspian tiger in the mountains bordering Iraq, slogging through a pitch-black Australian eucalyptus forest to find the nocturnal platypus, diving with great white sharks in South Africa, staving off enlightenment at a yoga retreat in Jamaica, and much, much more. In these essays, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humor and jolts of real emotion to show one of the most popular journalists of our time at the absolute peak of his game.
LC Classification Number
PS3553.A365H65 2002
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