From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton’s journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton’s many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.

“Startling and informative. . . . I was swept away not only by [Crichton’s] richly informed mind, but his driving curiosity.” —Patricia Bosworth, The New York Times Book Review

“Travels is about getting unstranded, about going to the ends of the earth and the edges of experience in order to see oneself for the first time.” —The Washington Post Book World

“[Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order.”—The Denver Post

“One of the great storytellers of our age. . . . The best Michael Crichton novels are . . . edifying reads, whose gripping plots contain real ideas.”—Newsday

“Crichton combines his knowledge of science with great talent for creating suspense.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Crichton is a master at blending edge-of-the-chair adventure and a scientific seminar, educating his readers as he entertains them.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Crichton has so perfected the fusion thriller with science fiction that his novels define the genre.”—Los Angeles Times

Travels

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By Michael Crichton