Road Fever: A High Speed Travelogue - Softcover

Cahill, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857020804 ISBN 13: 9781857020809

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

An account of a road trip from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska which has taken its place in the "Guinness Book of Records" as the fastest land journey up the American continent ever undertaken. The author also wrote "Jaguars Ripped My Flesh" and "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg".

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Review

If you define "adventure travel" as anything that's more fun to read about than to live through, then Tim Cahill's Road Fever is the adventure of a lifetime. Along with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, Cahill drove 15,000 miles from the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego to the northernmost terminus of the Dalton Highway in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, from one end of the world to another, in a record-breaking 23 1/2 days. Just like the authors' camper-shelled GMC Sierra truck, the narrative bounces along at a relentless pace. Along the way Cahill and Sowerby cope with mood swings, engine trouble, Andean cliffs, obstinate bureaucracies, slick highways, armed and uncomprehending soldiery (not to mention the challenges of securing O.P.M., or Other People's Money--the sine qua non of adventure, Cahill observes). Author of such off-the-wall travelogues as Pass the Butterworms and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, Cahill is equipped with the correct amalgam of chutzpah and dementia to survive what can only be called "The Road Trip From Hell." Readers, however, will thoroughly enjoy themselves.

From the Inside Flap

eports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty three and a half days.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857020804
• ISBN 13: 9781857020809
• Binding: Paperback