As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure

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. In this collection are some of the best tales ever swapped at this 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 editor George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club. This updated edition features a new foreword by Richard Wiese, president of The Explorers Club, and a photo insert that takes readers on a virtual tour of this exclusive club and its extraordinary archives.