As Told At the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure

by George Plimpton, Richard Wiese President, The Explorers Club, New York City (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493047444
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Edition description:	Updated Edition
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	199,653
Product dimensions:	6.03(w) x 9.06(h) x 1.37(d)

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

March 18, 1927

Date of Death:

September 25, 2003

Place of Birth:

New York, NY

Place of Death:

New York, NY

Education:

B.A. in English Literature, Harvard University, 1950; Master's degree, Cambridge University, 1952

Table of Contents

Foreword for the 2020 Edition Richard Wiese ix

Foreword George Plimpton xi

Part 1 Africa

The Chosts of Ngulia Mervyn Cowie 3

The Lady and the Coelacanth: Remembering the Zoological Discovery of the Century J. Richard Greenvvell 15

Martin and Osa Johnson: Exploration Was Their Way of Life Kenhelm W. Stott Jr 27

Memories of the Last Crusade Lowell Thomas 35

There Is Such An Animal Patrick Putnam 47

Witchcraft Among the Zulus Carl Von Hoffman 57

Part 2 Alaska

A Day I Should Have Stayed in Bed Robert C. Reeve 69

It Bears Telling Captain L. Ron Hubbard 75

Part 3 Arctic

Arctic Ghost Felix Riesenberg 83

At Close Quarters with a Polar Bear Anthony Fiala 95

The Compass That Talked Edward Weyer 99

The Last Resort: Cannibalism in the Arctic Anne Keenleystde 107

On Stefansson Roald Amundsen 115

Rescued from the "Death Trap" of the Arctic Burt M. McConnell 123

The Royal Road to Humdrum Vilhjalmur Stefansson 135

Part 4 Asia

1990 American Everest-Lhotse Expedition Glenn Porzak 151

Cheetah Hunting Col. C. Suydam Cutting 167

The Elephant-Headed Deity Ganesh Stanley J. Olsen 173

The Elephant that Walked to Vienna J. Monroe Thorington 177

A Gobi Adventure Roy Chapman Andrews 183

Hang-Gliding on the K-2: An Emergency' Descent of 7,600 Meters Jean-Marc Boivin 187

Mongolian Interlude William J. Morden 195

Over the Khyher to Kabul Lowell Thomas 211

Through the Wilderness of Northern Korea to the Long White Mountain Roy Chapman Andrews 221

Traversing Arabia's Rub'al Khali Jens Munthe 227

Woman, You Are a Beast Jørgen Bitsch 239

Yeti Expedition Thomas Baker Slick 247

Ruler of the Bush G. Vic Hurley 253

Part 5 Atlantic Ocean

Rowing Across the Atlantic: Husband-Wife Team Proves it Can be Done Curtis L. Saville 261

Part 6 Canada

Pagans of the Pasquas Donald A. Cadzow 269

Part 7 Central America

Carmelita Tom Gill 275

Eyes in the Night Seymour Gates Pond 281

Men Who Can't Come Back W. E. Aughinbaugh 289

The Capture of an Ant Army Herbert F. Schwarz 295

Part 8 Pacific Ocean

The Fire-Dog of Am Lewis R. Freeman 303

"Juah Tada" Hassoldt Davis 313

Pitcaim Island After 200 Years: Will the Settlement Survive? Prince Joli Kansil 319

Rowing Across the Pacific: One Stroke at a Time Curtis Kathleen Saville 327

Part 9 United Kingdom

Biscay Gales Leonard Outhwaite 343

Wings in the Storm Hugh Duncan Grant 359

Part 10 United States of America, Lower Forty-Eight

Bullwhacking Across the Plains W. H. Jackson 365

Buried Alive Warren King Moorehead 379

The Death of Sitting Bull E. W. Deming 383

A Leap in the Dark Charles A. Lindbergh 387

Lost Inside the Earth Horace Ashton 391

Youthful Adventure Wilfred H. Osgood 401

Part 11 Horizons

Exploration Defined Alfred Eisenpreis 411

Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette Robert McCracken Peck 415

Lowell Thomas Milestones Howell L. Joiner 421

On Exploration Milbry C. Polk 425

Remembering Lowell Thomas Walter Cronkite 431

The Explorers Club Research Collections 446

Permissions Acknowledgments 447