Pecked to Death by Ducks
by Tim Cahill

In this collection, Tim Cahill sleeps with grizzly bears. He also treks with llamas, inches his way through the deepest cave in America, and assesses the cuteness quotient of giant clams in the Sout Pacific. From the wastes of Antarctica to the blazing oil fields of Kuwait, and from an evening of demonic possession in Bali to a session on Guatemala's Throne of Terror, Pecked to Death by Ducks is a grand tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places.

"Cahill has the skill of a genuine writer, the funny bone of a wryly self-effacing comic, and the sensitivity of a committed environmentalist."
--Seattle Times

"You might call him crazy. You might call him reckless. But you'll definitely call him hilarious. Adventure-travel crash-dummy Tim Cahill is to travel writing what P.J. O'Rourke is to political commentary."
--Hartford Courant

"When a jackass flies, no one asks how far or how fast. When a jackass flies, people stand amazed. Follow me through on this. One day last October I played my harmonica hanging from a half-mile-long rope anchored at the top of El Capitan. Even though absolutely no one was ther to stand amazed, the jackass had sprouted wings. I am absurdly smug about this accomplishment. The rope had been rigged by a group of rapellers I had once worked with in the southeast, led by a man named Dan Twilley. El Cap is one of the longest overhanging cliffs in the world, and this was the second-longest free-fall rappel ever made on a single rope: 2,650 feet to be exact. The longest was a 3,280-foot drop made in 1980 off Mount Thor on Baffin Island, also led by Twilley. The rapel was wonderfully terrifying fun. The whole of Yosemite Valley was spread out below me, and as I'd chosen to make my descent just at twilight, I owned half an hour's worth of sunset. Somewhere toward the bottom of the cliff, about three hundred feet above the tops of the trees, I tied off for a few minutes and played some slow and slightly breathless blues..."

ZB9292    Pecked to Death by Ducks                              $13.00

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