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Road Fever

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552775793

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 267g

  • RRP: £9.99

Road Fever

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.

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552775793

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 267g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

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

    Los Angeles Times

  • 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

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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.

Tim Cahill

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