Books written by Tim Cahill
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Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park
Phillips writes, “who have to live with the wolves” believe they should have the final say. Not so, Phillips responded. In America everyone has a vote, “and this right allows ranchers to participate in decisions on resources throughout ...
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The Kindness of Strangers
A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and transform the experience of travel, and celebrates the gift of kindness around the world.
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By the Seat of My Pants
Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road.
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Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park
Traces the author's lifetime of exploring the natural wonders of Yellowstone National Park, journeys during which he visited its geysers, thermal pools, and glacier; encountered a vast range of wildlife; and witnessed such phenomena as ...
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Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of John Wayne Gacy
Morrison thought she could shake him up somehow: your favorite defense doc quits on you. She was looking to “outsmart” him. What was he supposed to do, make up a bunch of shit about things he knew nothing about?
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A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg
The left channel was shallow and rock strewn. We would need to pull hard right as soon as we passed under the bridge. There were three boats. Seven of us were in the paddle boat: three of us on each tube with paddles and Jack Morrison ...
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Road Fever
Later he stopped to see his friend Finlay McDonald, who had taken some of the videotape that was shot on the Africa-Arctic run and pieced together a credible half-hour adventure film. The ambush wasn't on film but the audiotape had been ...
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A Wolverine is Eating My Leg
Presents a collection of humorous accounts of travel adventures taking the author to the rapids beneath the Himalayas, the "grand terror" of Montana, Dian Fossey's forbidden zone, a fundamentalist commune,...
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Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
The disturbing true portrait of the most prolific murderer in American history.
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Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy
New to this edition: - Expanded coverage of lobbying, SMEs and globalization - New real-life case studies using a wide range of examples from across Europe - Extensive pedagogical features including a glossary, revised discussion questions ...
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Pecked to Death by Ducks
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 ...
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Hold the Enlightenment
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.
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Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Based on exclusive interviews, meticulous research, and previously unreported material, this book brings to vivid life the most prolific serial killer in history, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Here -- often...
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Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
In Pass the Butterworms Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in ...
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Road Fever
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.
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Lonely Planet by the Seat of My Pants 3
"This collection presents 31 globe-girdling tales that run the gamut from close-encounter safaris to loss-of-face follies, hair-raising rides to culture-leaping brides, eccentric expats to mind-boggling repasts, wrong roads taken to ...
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Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
"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: Adventure is a Risky Business
The latest proof that literate outdoor adventure stories can be exciting as well as successful. Each story has an appealing informality, whether describing hurricane hunting in the Atlantic or diving...
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Call of the Wild: The Art of Parks Reece
Collection of Parks Reece's art.