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As Told at the Explorers Club

More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure

George Plimpton
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Pages
464
Year
2020
Language
English

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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.

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