Tento autor se zaměřuje na témata a zážitky z dětství a dospívání. Jeho dílo často zkoumá témata identity a místa, jak se formují skrze cestování a kulturní vlivy. Prostřednictvím svého psaní autor často sdílí své postřehy o lidském spojení a hledání domova.
Malý Timmy Cahill se hrozně chce dostat do školního fotbalového týmu. Je tu ovšem jeden problém – pokaždé ho někdo obere o míč, podrazí mu nohy nebo ho odstaví od míče. Možná prostěnení dost vysoký , aby mohl s ostatními hrát… Tim potřebuje vyrůst a to rychle! A pak, zrovna když to nejvíc potřebuje, objeví, že umí něco úžasného! Dostane se Tim do týmu?
From geysers to grizzlies, bison to bald eagles, this guide introduces experts and novices alike to the wild and woolly wonders of both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, plus nearby attractions. Family-friendly travel tips are included, as well as outdoor activities.
Exploring diverse cultures and landscapes, the author journeys through Mongolia's steppes, engages with descendants of Genghis Khan, and learns the "Mongolian death trot." He ventures to the North Pole for a daring swim and spends time with a head-hunting tribe in Irian Jaya New Guinea. Through humorous anecdotes and unique culinary experiences, such as sautéed sago beetle, he shares insights into family values among the Dani people and other intriguing aspects of these remote societies.
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 collection of adventure travel writing, Tim Cahill writes about these close encounters, giving new meaning to the expression "going to extremes". He also briefs us on gorilla etiquette, porcupine vendettas, and the loathsome fate awaiting those who disturb ruins in the jungles
"In 'HOLD THE ENLIGHTENMENT', one of America's favourite 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 ENLIGHTENMENT' takes 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 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 Negril, Jamaica, and much, much more. In these essays, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humour and jolts of real emotion to show one of the most popular journalists of our time at the peak of his game"
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.
In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny.
A collection of travel essays, authors include Bill Bryson, Douglas Adams, Randy Wayne White, Dave Barry, Anne Lamott, Doug Lansky and many more.
