The story of international football star Tim Cahill, one of the most admired Australian sportsmen of all time. It's an unlikely footballing fairy tale. Born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and Londoner father, Timothy Cahill grew up in the sprawling western suburbs, where cricket and rugby league ruled. It was a long way from his father's beloved West Ham and the English game that transfixed a young Tim with his own unlikely dreams of one day playing professionally. Growing up in the 1980s, life for Tim was about family, football and more football - training, playing and watching it with his brothers. Beginning as the youngest and smallest boy on the field, Tim steadily worked his way through the local club sides with an on-field toughness and intelligence that made the unlikely a possibility. By the time he was a teenager, Tim's parents boldly applied for a bank loan to fund his travels to England. It was an act of faith repaid with a successful trial for Millwall, the storied London club. After 249 appearances and 56 goals and cult-hero status among the fans, he signed for Everton, where he would enjoy a highly successful Premiership and stellar international career - leaving the legacy of becoming one of the most admired and respected Australian sportsmen of all time. With his trademark honesty and candour, Tim reflects on what it takes to make it to the top - the sacrifices, the physical cost, the mental stamina, the uncompromising self-belief, but also the loyalty, the integrity and the generosity. An autobiography that is more than a record of the goals and the games, Tim Cahill's story is a universal reminder of the importance of making your moment count.

Product Description: David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging yet. The expedition was organized by motion picture producer MacGillivray Freeman Films and comprised an international team of climbers...read more

Product Description: The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures...read more

Product Description: The set, boxed in a lavish silver metallic, features The Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill; The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006, introduced by Peter J. Gomes; and, like the first set, The Best American Short Stories 2006, edited by Ann Patchett.

Edited by the critically acclaimed author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, the latest volume in the annual series presents a wide-ranging anthology of the finest travel writing published over the past year, selected from a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and Web sites and encompassing contributions by David Sedaris, Alain de Botton, Pico Iyer, Gary Shteyngart, George Saunders, and others. Simultaneous.

Recounts thirty lighthearted travel misadventures as experienced by a diverse array of writers, from John Wood's elaborate fictions about his ex-wife's 'accidental death' to cover up his divorced status to Jayce White's discovery of a baboon at his breakfast table. Reprint.

Traces the author's lifetime of exploring the natural wonders of Yellowstone National Park, journeys during which he visited its geyser, thermal pools, and glacier, and encountered a vast range of wildlife.

Tim Cahill brings 'em back alive. Not only has he survived fantastic journeys through the Himalayan rapids, the Grand Terror of Montana, and Dian Fossey's forbidden zone, he writes about them, too. Fearless and hell-bent on destroying all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to places rarely seen and barely endured.

In a hilarious compilation of travel essays, the author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg recalls the challenges--animal, topographical, and human--he encountered on his journeys from the Saharan salt mines and the Congolese jungle to Hanford, Washington, site of the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Two hundred stunning full-color photographs, including IMAX images, complement a fascinating odyssey into the world of undersea mammals, which provides highlights of the work done by three leading scientists in the field of dolphin research. Reprint.

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Product Description: Tercer volumen de una nueva colección que traduce un concepto diferente de libros de viajes, en los que se abordan aspectos muy diversos, desde los necesarios consejos prácticos hasta una manera distinta de explorar el mundo como parte del viaje de crecimiento interior...read more

In a hilarious compilation of travel essays, the author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg recalls the challenges--animal, topographical, and human--he encountered on his journeys from the Saharan salt mines and the Congolese jungle to Hanford, Washington, site of the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Mountain Gazette offered proof that "outdoor literature" need not be an oxymoron. Running a scant eight years, from 1972 to 1979, the magazine featured material by major writers and artists on outdoor and adventure subjects. This volume collects the best material ? nonfiction, fiction, photography, cartoons, and illustrations ? from the old and new Mountain Gazette...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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In a collection of travel adventures, the author journeys from the rivers of Honduras to the grasslands of Mongolia, from Yellowstone's famed geysers to the deep jungles of Peru

The author of Pecked to Death by Ducks and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg describes his experiences and adventures while traveling in some of the wilderness areas of the world. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

In a collection of essays, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine witnesses demonic possession in Bali and assesses the cuteness quotient of clams in the South Pacific, among other experiences. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Chronicles a zany, record-breaking road trip from the tip of South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, which took the driver only twenty-three and a half days despite run-ins with sadistic Peruvian troopers and an Amazonian gold rush. Reprint.

Describes the author's experiences and adventures while traveling in the wilderness areas of the world

This portrait of the complex personality and motivations of convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy, Jr., is based on exclusive interviews, research, and previously unreported material