Hold The Enlightenment - Softcover

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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.

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In a world which assaults us with facts, figures and other certainties, some more precious but intangible things are in short supply. Enlightenment for example. Who better to go looking for it than that most intrepid of travellers, Tim Cahill, who faces down the extremities of the challenge with his characteristic humour and insane bravery.

From the Saharan salt mines to the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere, with trademark wit and insight, Cahill searches for the elusive enlightenment. Whether stalking the legendary Caspian tiger in the mountains bordering Iraq, slogging through a pitch-black Australian Eucalyptus forest to find the nocturnal platypus, diving with great white sharks in South Africa, or staving off bliss at a yoga retreat in Jamaica, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humour and jolts of real emotion to show the master of extreme travel at the peak of his game.