"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. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
"The author 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. This title describes these close encounters."
"The author presents amusing accounts of his adventures around the world, which include poisonous sea snake harvests in the Philippines, a feast of baked turtle lung in Australia, and encounters with gorillas, porcupines, and sharks."
"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.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
"Around thirty short essays on the author's world travels."