Jaguars Ripped My Flesh: Adventure Is a Risky Business - Couverture souple

Tim Cahill has clambered up Mount Roraima in the Guyana highlands, searching for the site of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. He's dined on baked turtle lung in the desolate northeast of Australia and harvested poisonous sea snakes in the Philippines. He's watched a wrestling match between a shark and an "underwater zombie" during a horror movie shoot off the coast of Mexico.

In this classic collection of adventure travel writing, Tim Cahill writes evocatively and often hilariously about these close encounters. He also briefs us on gorilla etiquette, porcupine vendettas, and the loathsome fate awaiting those who disturb ruins in the jungles of the Amazon. JAGUARS RIPPED MY FLESH is an exhilarating roller-coaster of a book, by a writer who gives new meaning to the expression "going to extremes".

If there was ever a traveller for whom the expression 'been there, done that' was invented, it is Tim Cahill. He has trudged up Mount Roraima in the Guyana highlands during the rainy season, in search of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. He's uncovered turtle poaching in Mexico and harvested poisonous sea snakes in the Philippines. He's flown into the eye of a hurricane with the U.S. Air Force Stormtrackers, and lived to tell the tale.

His fierce enthusiasm for exploration has taken him around the globe, and knows no bounds, reasonable or otherwise. He is as at home whether briefing us on gorilla etiquette or the loathsome fate awaiting those who disturb ruins in the jungles of the Amazon. In short, there are few travellers who have seen it or said it quite like Tim Cahill.