New book coming in June!

You can pre-order it here on Amazon, and on 6/14/16 your postman or woman will deliver this nice present to you.

Or start gently nudging your friendly indie bookseller to order a pile!

It is 102 short chapters about everything interesting I could find, learn about, or experience between Los Angeles and Patagonia. Topics include:

•  sloths
• rocks & ice
• the Aztecs
• the Amazon
• Peru
• Mexico and how Mexico City was the Western Hemisphere’s first metropolis,
• Inca math rope
•  the history of travel writing
• how scholars, eccentrics, archaeologists and gum entrepreneurs figured out how to learned to read ancient Mayan
• the crazy violent nightmare adventure of Bernal Diaz
• Boston
• Hollywood
• and hallucinogenic plants.

I hope you enjoy it!

How about that rad cover designed by Anna Laytham?