Travel / adventure writer and freelance botanist, Jim Malusa will be at Warwick's on Tuesday, July 1 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign his new book, Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents.
If you're looking for high-altitude tales of frostbit bravery and perilous icefalls, keep looking. This is the story of what happens when a man goes down instead of up. 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.) His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia, along Moses' route to the Dead Sea, and from Moscow to the Caspian Sea. He pedaled across the Andes to Salina Grande in Patagonia, around tiny Djibouti in the Horn of Africa to Lac Assal, and from Tucson to Death Valley. 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, 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.
Location: Warwick's Bookstore, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92037
For more information:
Phone: 858-454-0347
or
Visit: warwicks.booksense.com
or
Email:
If you're looking for high-altitude tales of frostbit bravery and perilous icefalls, keep looking. This is the story of what happens when a man goes down instead of up. 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.) His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia, along Moses' route to the Dead Sea, and from Moscow to the Caspian Sea. He pedaled across the Andes to Salina Grande in Patagonia, around tiny Djibouti in the Horn of Africa to Lac Assal, and from Tucson to Death Valley. 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, 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.
Location: Warwick's Bookstore, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92037
For more information:
Phone: 858-454-0347
or
Visit: warwicks.booksense.com
or
Email:
