Travels on the Edge

Name: Travels on the Edge
Brand: Event
Price: 35.5 USD
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Join The Explorers Club on January 21st for an illustrated lecture covering the half century of expeditions of naturalist and club fellow Robert Peck.

For almost fifty years, Bob Peck (FN 1981) has traveled the world as the official photographer, historian, and chronicler of scientific expeditions from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America’s oldest natural history institution, now part of Drexel University. He has discovered three new frogs in the Andes, collected several new species of fish on the Orinoco River, and helped study little-known insects in rarely visited parts of Africa and the Caribbean. He has made seven extensive expeditions to Mongolia to study its wildlife and document the fast-changing lives of its nomadic herdsmen. He has witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, traveled with camel caravans across the Gobi Desert, faced down headhunters in Ecuador, and been put under house arrest in China.

His new book, Travels on the Edge, A Naturalist’s Notes from the Back of Beyond, is a collection of essays recounting his remarkable experiences. While carrying readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world, it celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Bob brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore. In an illustrated lecture he will share with us some of the highlights (and frightening low points) of his extraordinary career.

In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm

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