Whether your taste runs to crocodiles or chocolate, pirates or flying saucers, you’re sure to find entertainment and illumination in this collection of 21 true travel stories. Join in the author’s adventures as she: • Attempts to eat a crocodile. • Discovers the chilling secrets of the Jamaica Inn pirates—and picks up a few business tips. • Enjoys a full-body chocolate massage in Seville. • Tracks down the world’s largest earthworms—they’re up to 20 feet long! • Makes a pilgrimage to see a 2,500-year-old tooth in Sri Lanka. • Participates in a shamanic ritual and confronts ayahuasca’s infamous serpents. • Learns the secrets of alien spaceship propulsion from a SETI astrophysicist.