Pass the Butterworms
Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
New York : Vintage Departures, 1998, ©1997.
Format: Book
Edition: 1st Vintage Departures ed.
Description: xvi, 283 pages ; 21 cm.
In a collection of travel adventures, the author journeys from the rivers of Honduras to the grasslands of Mongolia, from Yellowstone's famed geysers to the deep jungles of Peru.
Series: Vintage departures.
Contents:
Thundermug: an introduction of sorts -- Mongolia: adventures in you-cut hairstyling -- "Help, my pilot just had a heart attack and I can't fly a plane" -- Buford's revenge -- Glacier Bay -- A darkness on the river -- Uncharitable thoughts at the end of my rope -- The purple sage, at 180 miles an hour -- North Pole: the easy way -- In Honduras. He who laughs -- This man cannot speak -- The Islands of Pigs -- Pirates -- The Lone Ranger -- The Ozymandias Express -- Misty Crossings -- Malaria -- On the River of Cold Fires -- In Chief Yali's shoes -- Bonaire -- Geysers -- Family values in the raw -- Working the crowd -- The Queen Charlotte Islands: life and death (hee-hee) -- Tales from the place of wonder -- The tsunami rangers -- Therapeutic perambulation -- The monks of apnea -- Search and rescue -- Among the Karowai: a Stone Age idyll.
ISBN:
0375701117
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TRAVEL Writing Cah | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
TRAVEL Writing Cah | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |