Road Fever
by Tim Cahill | Travel | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0394758374 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0394758374 Global Overview for this book
3 journalers for this copy...
I had high hopes for this book. It sounded like a fun road trip story, but the first couple chapters just didn't grab me. Plus, the font is too small. (Aging. ...sigh...) Instead, I'll add this to goaliegirl's travel narrative bookbox. Enjoy!
This book came back in my latest travel narrative bookbox. Since Ihave a copy of this on my TBR pile already, I'll move this one along.
Journal Entry 3 by thegoaliegirl at Thegoaliegirl's Travel Narrative bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, September 9, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (9/8/2012 UTC) at Thegoaliegirl's Travel Narrative bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Sent out to start my latest travel narrative bookbox.
Journal Entry 4 by thegoaliegirl at Thegoaliegirl's Travel Narrative bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, September 9, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (9/8/2012 UTC) at Thegoaliegirl's Travel Narrative bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Sent out to start my latest travel narrative bookbox.
From Library Journal
This is a hip, rather self-indulgent, yet ultimately triumphant account of an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Re cords time for a road trip from the tip of South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Cahill and endurance driver Gary Sowerby spent 23 days piloting a truck while battling customs snafus, mechanical problems, bad roads, civil rebellions, terrorists, bandits, the vagaries of weather, their own anxieties and mood swings, and physical exhaustion, with grit and bluff, sporting lapel pins and consuming donated four-month shelf-life milkshake packages. For all the comic-opera aspects of the text, Cahill is an informed, serious commentator on the history and prospects of the countries through which they pass. Readers familiar with Cahill's alternate lifestyle point of view will know what they are getting into. Fans of his contributions to Outside and Rolling Stone , and of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh ( LJ 10/1/87) and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg ( LJ 2/15/89) will grab his newest work. For others, expect a treat.
- Libby K. White, Sche nectady Cty. P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc
This is a hip, rather self-indulgent, yet ultimately triumphant account of an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Re cords time for a road trip from the tip of South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Cahill and endurance driver Gary Sowerby spent 23 days piloting a truck while battling customs snafus, mechanical problems, bad roads, civil rebellions, terrorists, bandits, the vagaries of weather, their own anxieties and mood swings, and physical exhaustion, with grit and bluff, sporting lapel pins and consuming donated four-month shelf-life milkshake packages. For all the comic-opera aspects of the text, Cahill is an informed, serious commentator on the history and prospects of the countries through which they pass. Readers familiar with Cahill's alternate lifestyle point of view will know what they are getting into. Fans of his contributions to Outside and Rolling Stone , and of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh ( LJ 10/1/87) and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg ( LJ 2/15/89) will grab his newest work. For others, expect a treat.
- Libby K. White, Sche nectady Cty. P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc
