Pecked to Death by Ducks Author:Tim Cahill Travel essays: Tim Cahill sleeps with grizzly bears. He also treks with llamas, inches his way through the deepest cave in America, and assesses the cuteness quotient of giant clams in the South Pacific -- all in service of some of the most lively, nerve-wracking, and outrageous travel writing of our time. — From the wastes of Antartica to the bv... more »lazing oil fields of Kuwait, and from an evening of demoic poewsession in Bali to a session on Guatemala;s Throne of Terror, Pecked to Death by Ducks is a grand tour of the earht's remote, exotic, and dismal places, conducted with irrsistible aplomb by a maser of high (and low) adventure.« less