Tim Cahill, Author . Villard $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-50766-3
Organized in the "chaotic logic of a pinball in urgent play," this collection takes its reader from a yoga retreat in Jamaica to the mountains bordering Iraq as smoothly as it transitions between moments of sheer hilarity and utter poignancy.
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Tim Cahill, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-679-72026-3
Cahill ( Jaguars Ripped My Flesh ) courts intercontinental adventure in these collected travel pieces. He fishes for pike in Wisconsin's icy Lake Nagawicka (and competes in a minnow-drinking contest at Chuck and Sue's bar). Over the protests of the...
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Tim Cahill, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-74929-5
This hodgepodge of travel pieces tells of Cahill's experiences diving with sharks, jumping out of planes, trekking through jungles and other dangerous and exotic adventures. (Feb.)
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Tim Cahill, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-77079-4
Adventure travel writer Cahill's latest collection of essays brings a quirky sense of the absurd to his often offbeat encounters. (Apr.)
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Tim Cahill, Author Bantam Books $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-34276-5
A former Rolling Stone contributor, Cahill's vivid and immediate travel pieces are marked by a quiet humor. The amusement is most apparent in the general pieces about travel""Bad Advice,'' the ``Book on Survival,'' ``Getting Lost.'' Other sections...
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Tim Cahill, Author Random House (NY) $23 (377p) ISBN 978-0-679-40735-5
There are no ducks in this book; the title simply appealed to the author as expressive of this hodgepodge of pieces about his own and others' adventures. Cahill ( Road Fever ), a contributing editor of Outside magazine, where many of these articles...
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Tim Cahill, Author Villard Books $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-45625-4
Cahill (Jaguars Ripped My Flesh) has a reputation for reporting his intrepid treks with wit and sensitivity, and in this collection, mainly from Outside magazine, he does not disappoint. Many of his 24 stories are perverse romps: in Mongolia, he...
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Tim Cahill, Author, Russ Ewing, Author Bantam Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05115-5
This is the absorbing and disturbing story of John Wayne Gacy, the suburban Chicago businessman sentenced to death in 1980 for the murders of 33 young boys, most of whose bodies were buried in the crawlspace under his home. Cahill, aided in his...
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