Book Description
Whether he's engaging in aerial combat or riding an
Ididarod sled, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most
adventurous travelers. He studies antiterrorist driving
techniques, dives for golf balls in a pond at a country club,
hunts his fellow man with a paint gun, ice fishes for walleye
with X-ray-stunned nightcrawlers, and poaches Panamanian
crocodiles--or goes pig shooting in the Australian outback.
With self-effacing optimism, White captures the joys and
fears of wandering the earth's surface with an eclectic cast
of weirdo fellow travelers--a frog that won't jump, a group
of expatriate Brits who've developed an interesting cure for
road jaundice, and even a mad Australian scientist. Though he
rarely finds what he's looking for--such as the legendary
landlocked bull sharks of Nicaragua, or the secret to
successful winter fishing on a Minnesota lake--he develops a
Zenlike passion for the means and a rare ability to revel in
the rib-aching humor of each exotic trip. In the end, White
leaves the reader mesmerized by the potential of undiscovered
places and the promise of endless adventure in unfamiliar
territory, from Florida to Bangkok to Borneo, and everywhere
in between. An icon to the new breed of thick-skinned, high-
endurance adventure travelers of the 1990s, Randy White
uniquely extols the pleasures of being alone and on the move.
