Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements ix Foreword by Roger Hubank xi Introduction The Familiar as Strange, The Strange as Familiar xiii Travels with a Harley 1 Riding in America before the fall Small Worlds 28 Green Gables, Red Earth Landing Sheep on Caher Island A Place Apart Cityscapes 45 That's the way it is when you're in Seattle Piece de Resistance Varanasi in Darkness and Light Propositioned in Portland Cool in Montreal Arctic Fractals 71 Watching narwhal on the Brodeur Peninsula The Franklin Graves on Beechey Island Arctic State of Mind Changing Places 87 Cuba: Confronting the Negative Downtown Hungary The Valleys In the Hide of the Lion 'While everybody knelt to pray / The drifter did escape' Bolivian Journey Meetings with Remarkable Creatures 133 The Wolf and the Goose Whale-watching at Tadoussac Befriending the Raven Fellow Travellers 153 Resident Alien Drinking with Dervla Nature's Intimate Comedian on the Tracks Flibbertigibbet prose-writer Eastings 180 Gaspe The Cow's Mouth Fragments of Paradise Travels with The Flea 203 Through Wales on six legs Postscript 'An absence bounding at our side ...' 309
