Hold the Enlightenment (Vintage Departures)

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.