Hold the enlightenment
By: Tim Cahill
Edition: First Vintage Departures edition.
Series: Vintage departures
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780375713293
Subjects: American essays; Travel; Anecdotes
Description: America's 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.
Table of contents: title: Unattractive to the opposite sex : an introduction; title: Hold the enlightenment; title: The search for the Caspian tiger; title: Bug scream; title: The platypus hunter; title: Fire and ice and everything nice; title: The caravan of white gold; title: The terrible land; title: The house of boots; title: This teeming ark; title: Near Massacre Ranch; title: Fubsy hors d'oeuvres; title: Gorillas in our schools; title: Powder keg; title: The entranced duck; title: Castle and more castles; title: Culinary schadenfreude; title: Swimming with great white sharks; title: Atlatl Bob's splendid lack of simple sanity; title: Stutter; title: Fully unprepared; title: Evilfish; title: The world's most dangerous friend; title: Collision course; title: The Big Muddy; title: Professor Cahill's Travel 101; title: The cowpersons of Tanzania; title: My brother, the pot dealer; title: Dirty money; title: Panic; title: Trusty and grace.