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Road Fever (Vintage Departures) (Paperback)

by Tim Cahill (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reprint edition (Mar 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0394758374
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394758374
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,123,528 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Driving 15,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty-three and a half days, Tim Cahill's "Road Fever" is a hilarious account of a preposterous journey, a breathtaking tour of North and South America, as well as a veritable how-to for pulling off cheeky scams to get ahead. All in the spirit of getting his name written into the record books. Told with the humour, knowledge, and propriety-be-damned attitude that have made his other adventure books such critical and popular successes, Cahill embarks on his fastest, funniest trip yet. He reveals everything there is to know about surviving South America on a diet of beef jerky and Farmer's milk shakes and getting General Motors and the Guinness Book of World Records to subsidize his wanderlust. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Driving 15,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty-three and a half days, Tim Cahill's Road Fever is a hilarious account of a preposterous journey, a breathtaking tour of North and South America, as well as a veritable how-to for pulling off cheeky scams to get ahead. All in the spirit of getting his name written into the record books.

Told with the humour, knowledge, and propriety-be-damned attitude that have made his other adventure books such critical and popular successes, Cahill embarks on his fastest, funniest trip yet. He reveals everything there is to know about surviving South America on a diet of beef jerky and Farmer's milk shakes and getting General Motors and the Guinness Book of World Records to subsidize his wanderlust. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Stormer!, 7 Oct 2004
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This was a hugely enjoyable book. You certainly don't need to be a petrol-head to be wrapped up in the story of Tim and his driver Garry as they bump along through the bullets and near misses. It is a classic story of two obsessives (but sort of normal guys) getting caught up in the moment as they sought to break the time record. You'll learn more about South and North America, and the workings of the Guinness book of records, along the way, and learn not to giggle when at border controls. All useful stuff. It is at times written with an almost British sense of understatement. You can vicariously enjoy their perils safely from your armchair, which probably does not smell of rotten milk shake. Would make a good escapist read for a commuter, and is very funny, and gripping. You cannot help but will them to succeed and agonise at their setbacks. If you've ever tried to get a 21 foot truck in a 20 foot container, this is the book for you.
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