History--natural history, human history, and personal history--and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in Off Course a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born.Harrigan's...