Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
Published on 9. February 2011
320 pages
978-0-307-77839-0 (ISBN)
Description
The author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Pecked to Death by Ducks gives new meaning to the words "going to extremes" in this exhilarating--and frequently hilarious--collection of adventure travel writing. "Cahill . . . (writes) with the precision ofJohn McPhee and Joan Didion tempered by a Monty Pythonesque sense of the absurd."--San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
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04/1996
Vintage Books
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09/1987
Bantam Books
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Tim Cahill is the author of nine books, including A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, and Pass the Butterworms. He is an editor at large for Outside magazine, and his work appears in National Geographic Adventure, The New York Times Book Review, and other national publications. He lives in Montana.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Tracking Snipe
- The Book on Survival
- Pombe Wisdom
- Getting Lost
- Bad Advice
- 2. News of the World, Such As It Is
- Going South
- Strange Translations
- The Lost World
- The Underwater Zombie
- Cahill Among the Ruins in Peru
- Down Under and Thereabouts
- The Reception at Bamaga
- To the Place of Walleroo Dreaming
- Coming Back from Gato Island
- 3. Animal Lore
- Rime of the Ancient Porcupine
- Life and Love in Gorilla Country
- The Clown Owl's Bitter Legacy
- The Shame of Escobilla
- 4. The Home Front (See the USA .)
- In the Wind
- Ill Wind at Poison Creek
- The First Fear Fandango
- Balloon Drop
- Fear of Falling
- Into the Eyewall
- Over My Head
- No Laughs in Satan's Silt Hole
- Caving in Kentucky
- Shark Dive
- Kayaking Among the Ice Children
- Manifest Destiny
- The New Desert, an Old Woman
- World-Class Attractions
- Fire and Brimstone on the Volcano Watch
- Eruption
- The Killing Season
- A Camp at the End of Time
