Tim Cahill

"Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job.  Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility.  Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations; the big chill, a midlife crisis."
- Tim Cahill, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

Tim Cahill

About Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill is a renowned adventure travel journalist, recognized for exploring all corners of the world and finding the beauty, humor, and meaning when things inevitably don't work out as expected.  He is the author of several popular travel books and a frequent contributor to publications like Outside Magazine,  Men's Journal, and National Geographic Adventure.  Cahill first wrote for the San Francisco Examiner and then worked for Rolling Stone.  When Rolling Stone decided to launch Outside Magazine in 1977, he was well positioned as one of the only two writers who actually liked the outdoors.  He became one of the first contributing editors and has been an editor-at-large for over 20 years.  His popularity perhaps stems from his lack of self-righteousness; Cahill is at heart an everyday person who tells interesting stories about adventure travel, rather than an professional adventurer trying to just describe the adrenaline-filled highlights of the event.  His writing brings the perspective of anyone making that first step to peer into the void of the unfamiliar and to confront fear of the unsettling and unknown.  

Book Reviews from Travelreads

  1. A Wolverine is Eating My Leg

  2. Road Fever

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