Michael Crichton: Travels (USA 2014)

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FUELED BY A POWERFUL CURIOSITY AND THE NEED TO see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton experienced adventures as compelling as those he created in his books and films.

When Crichton -- a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director -- began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a landslide in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti. 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.

Michael Crichton: Travels. Vintage Books, ISBN: 9780804171274 (March, 2014), 377 p., $15.95.

Michael Crichton: Travels (USA 2002)

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Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.
When Michael Crichton -- a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director -- began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a landslide in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton has experienced adventures as compelling as those he created in his books and films. These adventures -- both physical and spiritual -- are recorded here in Travels, Crichton's most astonishing and personal work.

Michael Crichton: Travels. Harper Paperbacks, ISBN: 0060509058 (November, 2002), 400 p., $14.99.

Michael Crichton: Travels (UK 1994)

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This recounts the travels of Michael Crichton to some of the remotest places on Earth, and towards his own inner self. During his exploration he swam through a cloud of sharks off Tahiti, came eye to eye with an elephant in Africa, and met with painted tribesman in the highlands of New Guinea.

Michael Crichton: Travels. Pan, ISBN: 0330301268 (February, 1994), 377 p., £5.99.

Michael Crichton: Travels (USA 1991)

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Fueled by a powerful curiosity -- and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close up-Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling.

Off Tahiti he swam through a school of sharks. In the highlands of New Guinea he moved among painted tribesmen for whom life is perpetual war. At midnight in Africa he came eye to eye with an elephant. In the American desert he entered startling new realms of the paranormal.

This is a record of those travels-an exhilirating 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.

Michael Crichton: Travels. Ballantine, ISBN: 0345359321 (May, 1991), 417 p., $5.99.

Michael Crichton: Travels (USA 1988)

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Off Tahiti he dives through a cloud of sharks. In the remote highlands of New Guinea he moves among painted tribesmen who live in a state of perpetual cloud warfare. At midnight in Africa he comes eye to eye with an elephant. In the American desert he crosses into new realms of psychic experience.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity -- and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close up -- Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds as diverse and compelling as those he created in The Andromeda Strain and Sphere.

His Travels is a record of astonishing adventure. It is a vision of travel not as escape but as exhilaration, as a testing of self, and as spiritual education. It is a portrait of a young man -- by age thirty a Harvard-trained physician, best-selling novelist, successful movie director -- who becomes confused, suddenly feeling stranded in his own life, and determines to break out, to search, to widen his horizons.

It is, as well, a quiet and conciete man of science, humor, and common sense, of his "inner travels" into psychic and spiritual worlds -- how he moved, almost reluctantly, from skepticism to discovery; how he experienced meditation and channeling, auras and entities.

Crichton shows us travel as turmoil and as peace: off Venezuela, a moment of pure terror as he ascends through deep water from a beautiful but dangerous wreck... on the border of Zaire, the serene joy of seeing, very close, a great silverback gorilla cradling its infant in the palm of one huge hand. All of his voyages, outward and inward, from his twenties to his mid-forties, have been journeys into awareness -- leading him to the excitement and benison of direct experience undimmed by expectations, theories, or old assumptions. His remarkable book is in itself a fascinating realm in which the adventurous are invited to travel.

Michael Crichton: Travels. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0394562364 (March, 1988), 377 p., $17.95.