- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate (6 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 185702642X
- ISBN-13: 978-1857026429
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,440,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The latest of Tim Cahill’s fearless adventure travels, wholly in the spirit of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh and Pecked to Death by Ducks.
Tim Cahill 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 herdsman in New Guinea the most fashionable style of penis sheath and how to grow one. Great travel writing is not only about place but about people and Cahill is at his exuberant best when extraordinary places are filled with extraordinary folk: the pacific rangers who paddle bullet-proof canoes into raging storm waves clad in grey body armour for camouflage because they don’t want to be rescued by the coastguard; the competitive spear fishermen of Southern Peru; the warring 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 travel: vigorous, risky, sensitive, observant and full of life.
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Tim Cahill 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 exuberant best when extraordinary places are filled with extraordinary folk: the Pacific rangers who paddle bullet-proof canoes into raging storm waves clad in grey body armour for camouflage because they don't want to be rescued by the coastguard; the competitive spear fishermen of Southern Peru; the warring 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 travel: vigorous, risky, sensitive, observant and full of life lived on the edge.
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This book brings the reader from the barren plains of Mongolia to the chilled waters of Alaska, from the jungles of Peru to the islands of Hounduras. Tim Cahill is a wonderful story teller and a fine observer of human behaviour. His appreciation of nature and his understanding of the fine balancing game our world is playing between development and ecological disaster is recounted in a very humorous and at times touching way. His stories introduce us to more like minded adventurers, whose passion for exploration of the less well travelled road allows the reader to participate in the journey. This book is the ultimate travel guide with added adrenalin, and makes those of us reading it while tucked up in bed feel like we are missing out on something huge! Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered is an excellent read, and is a superbly entertaining way of finding out far more about the world and the people that live in it - right down to the phenomonen of the similarity in Missionary attire the world over, and the lengths man must go to in order to star in a beer commercial!
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