Jaguars Ripped My Flesh - Couverture souple

Cahill, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679770798 ISBN 13 : 9780679770794

Editeur : Vintage, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Cahill Tim

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

If there was ever a traveller for whom the expression 'been there, done that' was invented, it is Tim Cahill. He has trudged up Mount Roraima in the Guyana highlands during the rainy season, in search of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. He's uncovered turtle poaching in Mexico and harvested poisonous sea snakes in the Philippines. He's flown into the eye of a hurricane with the U.S. Air Force Stormtrackers, and lived to tell the tale.

His fierce enthusiasm for exploration has taken him around the globe, and knows no bounds, reasonable or otherwise. He is as at home whether briefing us on gorilla etiquette or the loathsome fate awaiting those who disturb ruins in the jungles of the Amazon. In short, there are few travellers who have seen it or said it quite like Tim Cahill.

Revue de presse :

"'Tim Cahill is the working class Paul Theroux... He delights in finding stories too peculiar to be labelled merely off-beat'" (The New York Times)

"'Agreeably off-the-wall; he has a way with anecdotes'" (Washington Post)

"'Cahill [has] the what-the-hell adventuresomeness of a T.E. Lawrence and the humour of a P.J. O'Rourke'" (Conde Nast Traveller)

"'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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679770798
• ISBN 13: 9780679770794
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320