Travels

First Trade edition following the private publication of the Franklin Library. Quarter blue cloth over green boards, gilt spine titles, and gilt monogram initials to front board.Unclipped jacket. Tight, clean, and unmarked.-"Medical student, writer, film-director, modern-day adventurer, Michael Crichton now gives his fans an extraordinarily candid and revealing account of his most enthralling and important journeys--physical, emotional, and psychic--during the past two decades in a book every bit as riveting as his bestselling novels.- 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. 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."Light shelf wear.