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Hold the Enlightenment

di Tim Cahill

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Extreme travel writing for fans of Bill Bryson, Peter Moore, P.J. O'Rourke, Tim Moore. In Hold the Enlightenment, one of America's favourite and funniest adventure writers returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical - and human. Hold the Enlightenment takes Cahill to sites as far-flung as Saharan salt mines, the Congolese jungle, and Hanford, Washington, home of the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. With trademark wit and insight, Cahill describes 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, staving off enlightenment at a yoga retreat in Negril, Jamaica, and much, much more. In these essays, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humour and jolts of real emotion to show one of the most popular journalists of our time at the peak of his game.… (altro)

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ritaer | Jul 4, 2021 |

Off the beaten path would be an understatement. An entertaining read that's just right for the airplane ride to your next adventure. (

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dele2451 | Oct 21, 2017 |

This was the first book I've read from Cahill and it's likely the only one I'll read. He's not a bad writer, but maybe he has just been doing it too long in the same way. It should have been exciting. It was boring. It should have been funny, (with few exceptions) it wasn't. Bill Bryson can make a trip across the front lawn to get the mail sound menacing and hilarious (and it probably is in both cases), meanwhile Cahill sits down with violent revolutionaries and it's . . . well, not exciting.

He doesn't give much about people either. J. Troost gives more flavor for locations and surrounding. Meanwhile, for danger, Chuck Thompson and Hider manage to also convey a more serious sense of peril, whether that's actually the fact or not. At the end of the day, it's easy to point out the people Cahill doesn't resemble. Unfortunately, he does resemble Tim Cahill and I didn't enjoy his work enough to pursue further. (

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Sean191 | Apr 26, 2010 |

Classic Cahill -- combination of humor and seriousness, but never dull and always interesting. Amazing how he can combine a genuine modesty with his taste for adventure that most of us can only dream of. This one was a bit more personal than others, with more details of one very serious accident and its repurcussions, but as someone who really enjoys Cahill, it rounded out the personality. (

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NellieMc | Aug 1, 2008 |

In bygone years, I was a big fan of Tim Cahill, but I was less impressed with this collection. It must be hard to be in the same camp as authors like Bill Bryson (especially when you look like his long lost brother), when your audience sits down, opens your book and demands “Amuse me”. In this, I feel Cahill tries hard, but his heart’s not really in it. He seems to be a bit more jaded and uninspired by his own material. It’s readable enough, but in many of the stories I felt a bit like Karl from the Ricky Gervais podcast, asking, “Okay, go to Papa, but is it worth it?” The one story that did interest me was the one called “Panic”, where Cahill admitted rampant anxiety attacks kept him in the house for two months, too terrified to face the world. I’ve nearly been there and done that! (

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uryjm | Sep 3, 2006 |

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Extreme travel writing for fans of Bill Bryson, Peter Moore, P.J. O'Rourke, Tim Moore. In Hold the Enlightenment, one of America's favourite and funniest adventure writers returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical - and human. Hold the Enlightenment takes Cahill to sites as far-flung as Saharan salt mines, the Congolese jungle, and Hanford, Washington, home of the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. With trademark wit and insight, Cahill describes 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, staving off enlightenment at a yoga retreat in Negril, Jamaica, and much, much more. In these essays, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humour and jolts of real emotion to show one of the most popular journalists of our time at the peak of his game.

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