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Hold the enlightenment
- Title
- Hold the enlightenment / Tim Cahill.
- Author
- Cahill, Tim.
- Publication
- New York : Villard, [2002], ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3553.A365 H65 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 297 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In Hold the Enlightenment, America's favorite 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 Tim 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 his trademark wit and insight, Cahill describes stalking the legendry 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 Jamaica, and much, much more.
- In these essays, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humor and jolts of real emotion to show one of the most popular journalists of our time at the absolute peak of his game."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Unattractive to the Opposite Sex: An Introduction -- Hold the Enlightenment -- The Search for the Caspian Tiger -- Bug Scream -- The Platypus Hunter -- Fire and Ice and Everything Nice -- The Caravan of White Gold -- The Terrible Land -- The House of Boots -- This Teeming Ark -- Near Massacre Ranch -- Fubsy Hors D'oeuvres -- Gorillas in Our Schools -- Powder Keg -- The Entranced Duck -- Castle and More Castles -- Culinary Schadenfreude -- Swimming with Great White Sharks -- Atlatl Bob's Splendid Lack of Simple Sanity -- Stutter -- Fully Unprepared -- Evilfish -- The World's Most Dangerous Friend -- Collision Course -- The Big Muddy -- Professor Cahill's Travel 101 -- The Cowpersons of Tanzania -- My Brother, the Pot Dealer -- Dirty Money -- Panic -- Trusty and Grace.
- ISBN
- 0375507663 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002074263
- OCLC
- ocm49952293
- SCSB-4306315
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries