Jim Malusa's Reviews
Reviews of Jim’s Work
Jul.19.2009
Published by National Public Radio
I don't, personally, actually know any botanists, but I have to admit that I've never thought of it as an especially adventurous profession, so I certainly wouldn't have picked...
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Mar.19.2009
Published by Inside/Outside Magazine
The wind was at my back as I breezed through Into Thick Air, Jim Malusa's funny and endearing bicycle travelogue, even as the writer himself was slogging through sand, wilting in...
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Dec.19.2009
Published by Bicycles and Icicles
I don’t know whether to blame laziness, the Internet or my bikes, but over the past few years, I’ve noticed a troubling decline in the amount of time I spend reading books. Back...
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Sep.08.2008
Published by The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Low rider and long tripper
by Kisha Ferguson
August 9, 2008
INTO THICK AIR
Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
By Jim Malusa
Sierra Club, 321 pages, $18.50
BACK IN 6 YEARS...
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Jun.23.2008
Published by Green Globetrotter
Some thrill-seekers yearn to walk upon the peaks of Earth’s highest points. Jim Malusa, however, is not like most thrill-seekers. Equipped with a bicycle, sleeping bag and...
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Jun.01.2008
Published by New York Times Sunday Book Review
INTO THICK AIR: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents (Sierra Club, paper, $16.95) starts with a novel conceit: Jim Malusa, a Tucson-based writer and adventurer, decides to...
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Jun.06.2008
Published by Booklist Reviews
Malusa took six bicycle trips in the late 1990s and early 2000s whose destinations were the lowest points on every continent. His aim was to experience the journeys getting there...
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Mar.23.2008
Published by Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews
Delightful debut travelogue by botanist Malusa, who cycled to the lowest point on each of six continents. This peculiar quest sent him along routes connecting areas...
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His descriptions of desert landscapes can be extraordinary.”
—New York Times Sunday Book Review
About Jim
After graduating in the top 80% of the class of 1975 from Catalina High School in Tucson, Arizona, I worked as fry-vat lid opener at Kentucky Fried Chicken, steel bender at A&J Sheet Metal, and deconstructionist at Cro-Magnon Demolition. I later attended...