Nature, Culture & Cuisine

Award-winning travel writer and photographer

Laurie McAndish King is an award-winning travel writer and photographer whose stories have aired on NPR and been published in Lonely Planet, Travelers’ Tales, and other literary anthologies. Her articles and photography have also appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Smithsonian magazine.

WILD THING, I THINK I LOVE YOU!

Let your order do something wild!

Order before December 31, 2026—100% of net paperback proceeds will support wildlife advocacy organizations.

You’ll find plenty to love in these encounters with wildlife around the world: Elephants, lemurs, brown bears, bald eagles, leatherback turtles, wildebeest, toucans, lizards, lions, rhinos, and even earthworms.

TRUE STORIES FROM A CURIOUS TRAVELER

Lost, Kidnapped,
Eaten Alive!

Turmoil: Escape kidnappers in a foreign desert, lock the keys in your car in the middle of the Outback, accidentally marry a Maasai warrior…

Your Crocodile
has Arrived

Oddities: Enjoy a whole-body chocolate massage, pilgrimage to visit a sacred tooth, see a 20-foot-long earthworm, befriend a Brazilian shaman…

An Elephant Ate
My Arm

Intrigue: Perform a photographic invasion of Libya, eat a Japanese pizza that seems to be alive, visit a glass case full of shrunken heads, walk on a man-eating lake…

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