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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. 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 editor George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club.

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  • Title As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure
  • Author George Plimpton (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 445
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press, Guilford, CT
  • Publication date October 1, 2003
  • ISBN 9781592280353 / 1592280358
  • Weight 1.84 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.58 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 4.01 cm)
  • Category Travel - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Adventure and adventurers
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003017115
  • Dewey Decimal Code 910.4

About the author

GEORGE PLIMPTON, the originator of "participatory journalism," is the founder and editor of the renowned literary magazine The Paris Review. His books include Paper Lion (page TK), The Bogey Man (page TK), Open Net (page TK), Shadow Box (page TK), and Mad Ducks and Bears (page TK). He lives in New York City.
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