The Explorers Club
A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration
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Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers.
The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity.
This guided tour of The Club’s most riveting journeys includes hundreds of photos and fascinating anecdotes about The Club’s distinguished members, including Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall. From the darkest depths of the ocean to the highest points on Earth and to outer space and beyond, this book shares not just the inspirational history of modern exploration, but also reveals how it has evolved and continues to be relevant—even urgent—today.
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Journalist Wilser (Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life) embarks on a spirited tour of adventures undertaken by members of the Explorers Club, a group founded in 1904 to "push the boundaries of human knowledge." After its explorers became the first to "conquer" the North Pole, the South Pole, and the moon (Neil Armstrong was a member), it seemed to some as if there was nothing left to explore. Instead of becoming a "dead profession," however, exploration in the latter part of the 20th century transformed, according to Wilser, from a heedless "drive to conquer" to "an eagerness to collaborate" with local peoples, perform research, and conserve resources and species. He catalogues these shifts through accounts of Adolphus Greeley's doomed 1881–1884 Arctic voyage, which left 19 men dead; Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard's 1960 expedition to the Mariana Trench at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean; Callie Broaddus's 2021 discovery of illegal strip mining in the Ecuadorian rainforest; and astronaut Ed Lu's forays into space and efforts to map the trajectory of asteroids "large enough to annihilate human civilization." Readers will be invigorated by these tales of against-the-odds grit and determination (from scaling a frigid Mt. Everest to sending rovers to document Mars's terrain), which are accompanied by striking full-color photos, ship logs, and maps. Armchair adventurers, take note.
