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Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents

    Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents

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    Join the story of would-be adventurer Jim Malusa as he cycles to the lowest points on each continent.

    • Author: Jim Malusa
    • Softcover; 321 pages
    • Sierra Club books: copyright 2008

    With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each continent, a six-year series of ''anti-expeditions'' to the ''anti-summits.'' (A devoted desert man with a horror of snow and ice, he was happy to discover that Antarctica has no exposed terrain below sea level.)

    With a scientist's eye, Malusa considers the lives of thorny devils and jumping cactus. As a lone man, he is overfed by grandmothers, courted by ladies of the night at the Hotel Volgograd, invited into a mosque by Africa's most feared tribe, served up Chilean barnacles and road-kill kangaroo, serenaded by toads and dingoes, pursued by sandstorms and hurricanes—yet Malusa keeps riding. His reward: the deep silence of the world's great depressions.

    A large-hearted narrative of what happens when a friendly, perceptive American puts himself at the mercy of strange landscapes and their denizens,Into Thick Air is a reading experience of pure pleasure from a distinctive new voice in travel writing.

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