Travels

ISBN 0-330-30126-8

Pan books

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942. He was educated at Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, and in 1969 was a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. His novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, and Sphere. His latest novel, Jurassic Park, is now a major Stephen Spielberg film. He is the author of three works of nonfiction, Five Patients, Jasper Johns and Electronic Life. Among the films he has directed are Westworld, Coma and the film version of his own The Great Train Robbery. Michael Crichton lives in California.

Contents

Preface

MEDICAL DAYS (1965-1969)

TRAVELS (1971-1986)

Sex and Death in LA.

Psychiatry

Bangkok

Bonaire

Pahang

An Elephant Attacks

Kilimanjaro

Pyramid of the Magician

My Father's Death

Ireland

London Psychics

Baltistan

Shangri-La

Sharks

Gorillas

An Extinct Turtle

Cactus Teachings

Jamaica

A Human Light Show

They

Seeing Headhunters

Life on the Astral Plane

New Guinea

Spoon Bending

Seeing Aura

An Entity

Direct Experience

Postscript. Skeptics at Cal Tech