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Pecked to Death by Ducks

Tim Cahill (1993)

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Noted adventure travel writer Tim Cahill has a number of collections of writing, and quite honestly they are all pretty good.  Pecked to Death by Ducks is packed with funny descriptions of his never-ending tour of the world's most remote and surreal places.  He starts in Kuwait, amidst the madness of burning oil wells set on fire by Iraqi troops, starting a section he calls "The Unnatural World".  He then moves to the natural world, including Lechuguilla, a recently discovered cave now known to be the deepest in the United States.  One of his best stories, "Bear in Mind", describes how he fell asleep from exhaustion while watching a grizzly bear.  Other trips include Antarctica, El Peten in Guatemala, Australia, a visit to the sanghyang dancers of Bali, Taquile Island (considered part of Peru),  Not every location is geographically remote; two of his articles explore issues closer to home, with a visit to drug-addled streets of East San Jose, California and the border patrol guarding against illegal aliens in Arizona.  Like always with Cahill, the stories are brief, insightful, and funny.
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Tim Cahill is a celebrated adventure travel writer and an editor-at-large for Outside Magazine. His work has appeared in a number of national publications including National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times Book Review, and Esquire. Learn more about Tim Cahill here.

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GREAT QUOTES FROM PECKED TO DEATH BY DUCKS

"What I have been doing for the last fifteen years is chronicling, in various magazines, that urge in all of us.  I have the sense that, in my foolishness, others find inspiration.  If this clown can do it, I imagine a reader thinking, so can I.  There is some small and distant nobility here; For the past fifteen years I have been in the business of giving people back their dreams."

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  • Learn more about the Lechuguilla Cave at the National Park Service's website.

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