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Tales of exploration from the world's most exclusive club, having celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2004, The Explorers Club is an international society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. This volume, the first in what will be a long-running series of Explorers Club classics, is dedicated to the spirit of exploration. Assembled by Club member and literary giant George Plimpton, As Told at The Explorers Club will take you to all corners of the globe, with all sorts of adventurers and explorers, from Amundsen to Lindbergh, from the Arctic to Antarctica, and all points in between.

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.

Foreword

by George Plimpton

xi

PART ONE: Africa

The Ghosts of Ngulia

Mervyn Cowie

3

(12)

The Lady and the Coelacanth: Remembering the Zoological Discovery of the Century

J. Richard Greenwell

15

Martin and Osa Johnson: Exploration Was Their Way of Life

Kenhelm W. Stott, Jr.

27

(8)

Memories of the Last Crusade

Lowell Thomas

35

(12)

There Is Such An Animal

Patrick Putnam

47

(10)

Witchcraft Among the Zulus

Carl Von Hoffman

57

(12)

PART TWO: Alaska

A Day I Should Have Stayed in Bed

Robert C. Reeve

69

(6)

It Bears Telling

Captain L. Ron Hubbard

75

(8)

PART THREE: Arctic

Arctic Ghost

Felix Riesenberg

83

(12)

At Close Quarters with a Polar Bear

Anthony Fiala

95

(4)

The Compass That Talked

Edward Weyer

99

(8)

The Last Resort: Cannibalism in the Arctic

Anne Keenleyside

107

(8)

On Stefansson

Roald Amundsen

115

(8)

Rescued from the "Death Trap" of the Arctic

Burt M. McConnell

123

(12)

The Royal Road to Humdrum

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

135

(16)

PART FOUR: Asia

1990 American Everest-Lhotse Expedition

Glenn Porzak

151

(16)

Cheetah Hunting

Col. C. Suydam Cutting

167

(6)

The Elephant-Headed Deity Ganesh

Stanley J. Olsen

173

(4)

The Elephant that Walked to Vienna

J. Monroe Thorington

177

(6)

A Gobi Adventure

Roy Chapman Andrews

183

(4)

Hang-Gliding on the K-2: An Emergency Descent of 7,600 Meters

Jean-Marc Boivin

187

(8)

Mongolian Interlude

William J. Morden

195

(16)

Over the Khyber to Kabul

Lowell Thomas

211

(10)

Through the Wilderness of Northern Korea to the Long White Mountain

Roy Chapman Andrews

221

(6)

Traversing Arabia's Rub'al Khali

Jens Munthe

227

(12)

Woman, You Are a Beast

Jørgen Bitsch

239

(8)

Yeti Expedition

Thomas Baker Slick

247

(6)

Ruler of the Bush

G. Vic Hurley

253

(8)

PART FIVE: Atlantic Ocean

Rowing Across the Atlantic: Husband-Wife Team Proves it Can be Done

Curtis L. Saville

261

(8)

PART SIX: Canada

Pagans of the Pasquas

Donald A. Cadzow

269

(6)

PART SEVEN: Central America

Carmelita

Tom Gill

275

(6)

Eyes in the Night

Seymour Gates Pond

281

(8)

Men Who Can't Come Back

W.E. Aughinbaugh

289

(6)

The Capture of an Ant Army

Herbert F. Schwarz

295

(8)

PART EIGHT: Pacific Ocean

The Fire-Dog of Asu

Lewis R. Freeman

303

(10)

"Juah Tada"

Hassoldt Davis

313

(6)

Pitcairn Island After 200 Years: Will the Settlement Survive?

Prince Joli Kansil

319

(8)

Rowing Across the Pacific: One Stroke at a Time

Curtis and Kathleen Saville

327

(16)

PART NINE: United Kingdom

Biscay Gales

Leonard Outhwaite

343

(16)

Wings in the Storm

Hugh Duncan Grant

359

(6)

PART TEN: United States of America, Lower Forty-Eight

Bullwhacking Across the Plains

W.H. Jackson

365

(14)

Buried Alive

Warren King Moorehead

379

(4)

The Death of Sitting Bull

E.W. Deming

383

(4)

A Leap in the Dark

Charles A. Lindbergh

387

(4)

Lost Inside the Earth

Horace Ashton

391

(10)

Youthful Adventure

Wilfred H. Osgood

401

(10)

PART ELEVEN: Horizons

Exploration Defined

Alfred Eisenpreis

411

(4)

Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette

Robert McCracken Peck

415

(6)

Lowell Thomas Milestones

Howell L. Joiner

421

(4)

On Exploration

Milbry C. Polk

425

(6)

Remembering Lowell Thomas

with Walter Cronkite

431

(16)

Permissions Acknowledgments

447

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