Books: November 2009 Archives

In the Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Alter writes about veteran travel writer Tim Cahill, focusing on his chosen escape — a cabin near Gallatin National Forest in Montana.

“‘It’s often hilarious to me that I’m writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there’s a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air,’ said Mr. Cahill, a founding editor of Outside magazine and author of nine books, including ‘A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg’ and ‘Jaguars Ripped My Flesh.’ Mr. Cahill, whose wife died in a traffic accident last year, often stays at the cabin for week-long stretches, and all told spends a couple of months out of the year there.”