"An honest memoir by a reluctant traveler brings all the advantages of learning about exotic locales without the indignities, discomforts, and occasional terrors of actually visiting them. Jay Keyser – wit, poet, scholar, and bon vivant – offers a pleasurable and edifying way to see the world in the comfort of your own home”.

―Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology; New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thoughts and The Better Angels of our Nature

When he married for the second time, Jay Keyser thought he and his wife would settle down on a bucolic little farm where the cows meet the sea. That was before he found out the awful truth: he had married a travel junkie. While he was envisioning walks along quiet beaches, her sights were set on stakeouts beside Tanzani’s Grumeti River watching crocodiles take down baboons. He didn’t want to come within 6,000 miles of a crocodile, let alone 6 feet. But, somehow, he couldn’t let Nancy go it alone. And so, for the past 15 years, Jay Keyser has followed his wife around this treacherous world. This is his chronicle. MORE >>