Road Fever
  • Published: 13 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780552775793
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99
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Road Fever

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Extreme travel writing for fans of Bill Bryson, Peter Moore, P.J. O'Rourke, Tim Moore.

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.
  • Published: 13 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780552775793
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

About the author

Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill is the author of seven books, including A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, Pecked to Death by Ducks, Pass the Butterworms and Hold the Enlightenment. He is an editor at large for Outside magazine, and his work appears in National Geographic Adventure, The New York Times Book Review, and other national publications. He lives in Montana.

Also by Tim Cahill

Hold The Enlightenment
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg
Pass The Butterworms
Pecked To Death By Ducks
Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
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Praise for Road Fever

Tim Cahill is the working-class Paul Theroux. He delights in finding stories too peculiar to be labelled merely off-beat

New York Times

Tim Cahill is one of those rare types whose fun quotient seems to increase in direct proportion to the diceyness of the situation

San Francisco Examiner

Tim Cahill has the what-the-hell adventuresomeness of T. E. Lawrence and the humor of P. J. O'Rourke

Conde Nast Traveler

A travelogue with an attitude, a road book with a ragged edge and purely gonzo sensibilities

Los Angeles Times
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