Travels With the Flea: And Other Eccentric Journeys - Softcover

Perrin, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903238439 ISBN 13: 9781903238431

Publisher: Neil Wilson Pub Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Travel writer Jim Perrin is a regular contributor to The Great Outdoors, Climber and The Daily Telegraph. This volume collects the best of his recent work and covers venues as far apart as Garhwal and Montana, Kirgizstan and the High Arctic, Hungary and Cuba. It features Perrin spending time with headhunters in Borneo, narwhal in Lancaster Sound, wolves in Yellowstone, walking with his dog through Wales and finding out about the wild tribe of remote Inishturk.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Perrin has long been recognized as the finest of British mountaineering and outdoor writers. His earlier essays, like the notorious account of a cocaine-and-amphetamine-fueled solo ascent of Coronation Street in the Cheddar Gorge, are wildly anarchic, attitude-steeped, latter-day classics of the counter-cultural sport of climbing. His 1985 biography of Menlove Edwards (Menlove) won the Boardman-Tasker award and is regarded as one of the great texts in mountain literature.

Review:

'Jim Perrin is an alchemist. He takes the base metal of his own experience and, in retorts fuelled by the power of his observation and skill with language, transmutes it into prose that coruscates with spirit and meaning.' Jamie Jauncey, the Scotsman 'Jim Perrin, Britain's finest outdoor essayist, has won popular admiration for his funny, furious, erudite, beautiful style.' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Review 6th December, 2003

About this edition

• Publisher: Neil Wilson Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1903238439
• ISBN 13: 9781903238431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 313