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.