As Told At the Explorers Club
More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure
Published on 24. March 2020
464 pages
978-1-4930-4745-1 (ISBN)
Description
For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the Gobi Desert might kick back and, over some port, have a chat with a fellow off to Bandung.This updated edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wiese, the 44th president of The Explorers Club, and an all-new photo insert that takes readers inside the exclusive club and its world-famous adventure archives.
Here then, are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure, including:
Anthony Fiola on being in close quarters with a polar bear
Charles Lindbergh on his famous flight
Felix Reisenberg on the Arctic
Anne Keenleyside, Ph. D. on cannibalism
Roald Amundsen on the explorer Stefansson
Mervyn Cowie on hunting killer lions
Jean-Marc Boivin on hang-gliding
Curtis and Kathleen Saville on oceanic rowing
E. W. Deming on Sitting Bull's mysterious death
It's some of the finest writing on some of the most hair-raising journeys ever made, all selected by the late George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club.
Here then, are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure, including:
Anthony Fiola on being in close quarters with a polar bear
Charles Lindbergh on his famous flight
Felix Reisenberg on the Arctic
Anne Keenleyside, Ph. D. on cannibalism
Roald Amundsen on the explorer Stefansson
Mervyn Cowie on hunting killer lions
Jean-Marc Boivin on hang-gliding
Curtis and Kathleen Saville on oceanic rowing
E. W. Deming on Sitting Bull's mysterious death
It's some of the finest writing on some of the most hair-raising journeys ever made, all selected by the late George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
Illustrations
25 Color Photos
File size
7,09 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-4745-1 (9781493047451)
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03/2020
The Lyons Press
€24.00
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Persons
George Plimpton was the publisher and a founder and editor of the renowned literary magazine, The Paris Review. His books include Paper Lion, The Bogey Man, Open Net, Shadow Box, Mad Ducks and Bears, and Plimpton on Sports, all from The Lyons Press.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments for the 2020 Edition
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword for the 2020 Edition
- Foreword
- Part 1
- The Ghosts of Ngulia
- The Lady and the Coelacanth: Remembering the Zoological Discovery of the Century
- Martin and Osa Johnson: Exploration Was Their Way of Life
- Memories of the Last Crusade
- There Is Such An Animal
- Witchcraft Among the Zulus
- Part 2
- A Day I Should Have Stayed in Bed
- It Bears Telling
- Part 3
- Arctic Ghost
- At Close Quarters with a Polar Bear
- The Compass That Talked
- The Last Resort: Cannibalism in the Arctic
- On Stefansson
- Rescued from the "Death Trap" of the Arctic
- The Royal Road to Humdrum
- Part 4
- 1990 American Everest-Lhotse Expedition
- Cheetah Hunting
- The Elephant-Headed Deity Ganesh
- The Elephant that Walked to Vienna
- A Gobi Adventure
- Hang-Gliding on K-2: An Emergency Descent of 7,600 Meters
- Mongolian Interlude
- Over the Khyber to Kabul
- Through the Wilderness of Northern Korea to the Long White Mountain
- Traversing Arabia's Rub' al Khali
- Woman, You Are a Beast
- Yeti Expedition
- Ruler of the Bush
- Part 5
- Rowing Across the Atlantic: Husband-Wife Team Proves it Can be Done
- Part 6
- Pagans of the Pasquas
- Part 7
- Carmelita
- Eyes in the Night
- Men Who Can't Come Back
- The Capture of an Ant Army
- Part 8
- The Fire-Dog of Asu
- "Juah Tada"
- Pitcairn Island After 200 Years: Will the Settlement Survive?
- Rowing Across the Pacific: One Stroke at a Time
- Part 9
- Biscay Gales
- Wings in the Storm
- Part 10
- Bullwhacking Across the Plains
- Buried Alive
- The Death of Sitting Bull
- A Leap in the Dark
- Lost Inside the Earth
- Youthful Adventure
- Part 11
- Exploration Defined
- Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette
- On Exploration
- Remembering Lowell Thomas
- The Explorers Club Research Collections
- Permissions Acknowledgments
