Hold the Enlightenment

In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant centipedes in the Congo. Cahill is one of the last great intrepid journalists, and his thirty wildly entertaining essays display sparkling wit and unstinting curiosity. When not on the move, he debunks hoary notions of the kindness of dolphins and ruminates on religion, death and the perplexing phenomenon of yoga. Charming, incisive and absolutely fearless, Cahill is the perfect travel companion.

• Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
• Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
• Road Fever
• A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg
• Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tale)
• Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (Crown Journeys)
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
• Pecked to Death by Ducks
• In the Buddha Factory (New Odyssey Series)