Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered

London England: Fourth Estate, 1997. Paperback. The author doesn't travel like other people, which is how he finds himself on the back of an unshod pony running at a stamping gallop through Mongolia, kayaking in Alaska in the face of a calving glacier, swimming (briefly, oh so briefly) in the waters below the ice at the North Pole and debating with a Dani tribesman in New Guinea the most fashionable style of penis sheath and how to grow one. Great travel writing is found in the mix of place and people and Cahill is at his exuberan best when extraordinary places are filled with extraordinary folk: the Pacific rangers who paddle bullet-proof canoes for camoflage because they don't want to be rescued by the coastguard; the competitive spear fisherman of Southern peru; the waring Indians of the upper Amazon; the pilots who pretend to have heart attacks mid-flight so that their passengers can learn how to cope in an emergency. This is real trave;: vigorous, risky, sensitive, observant and full of life lived on the edge. 292 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.