[IOCA] Adventure talks Boston

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FYI for those folks living around/in Boston.

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There will be two interesting adventure talks in the next few months:
Nov 29: A talk about a trip to Siberia and Lake Baikal.
Jan 31; A talk about a trek across the Gobi Desert.

Both are free and open to anyone. See below for more details...

Matthew
MITOC Secretary


----- Forwarded message from hcarrier at gcb.com -----
     Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:08:19 -0500
     From: Harriet Carrier <hcarrier at gcb.com>
Reply-To: Harriet Carrier <hcarrier at gcb.com>
  Subject: The Globe Corner Bookstores - Adventure Travel Lectures
       To: MIT Outing Club <mitoc-owner at mit.edu>

THE GLOBE CORNER BOOKSTORES
ADVENTURE TRAVEL LECTURE SERIES

EVENTS SUMMARY:

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER  28TH                        PETER THOMSON - THE  
SACRED SEA
Peter Thomson, author of "The Sacred Sea:  A Journey to Lake Baikal"
will speak about his and his brother's travels to Siberia and Lake
Baikal,  Thomson was the founding producer and editor of NPR's
"Living on Earth".

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31ST                           HELEN THAYER -
CROSSING THE GOBI
Helen Thayer will read from "Walking the Gobi A 1600-Mile Trek Across
a Desert of Hope and Despair". Thayer has been named "One of the
Great Explorers of the 20th Century"  by National Geographic.

INFORMATION FOR THE ABOVE EVENTS:

Location:               First Parish Church, Mass. Ave at Church
Street, Harvard Square
Accessibility:        Wheelchair Accessible
Time:                      6 p.m.
Admission:            Free
Reservations:       617-649-5700 x21 or events at gcb.com
Addit. Info:            www.globecorner.com


DETAILED EVENT DESCRIPTIONS:

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER  28TH                        PETER THOMSON - THE  
SACRED SEA

Peter Thomson, author of "The Sacred Sea:  A Journey to Lake Baikal"
will speak about his and his brother's travels to Siberia and Lake
Baikal,  Thomson describes Lake Baikal as "the deepest and oldest
lake on earth", holding an incomparable amount of clear and pure
water and hosting a range of "unique  and sometimes bizarre animals
and plants."  Thomson provides fascinating details about the
creatures who inhabit Lake Baikal and its shores  His extraordinary
account of travelling around the lake and its remote communities
provides a context for the impact of increasing regional development.

Thomson presents the political issues and environmental threats which
are concerns for both local residents and a range of advocates for
preservation of the lake's ecosystem.  He discusses the ways in which
local residents, scientists, and others are now divided about the
long-held belief that the lake can and will be capable of self-
purification.

The recipient of numerous broadcast journalism awards, Thomson was
the founding producer and editor of NPR's "Living on Earth." He
serves on the Executive Committee of Society of Environmental
Journalists. Currently a freelance environmental journalist, he lives
in Boston.

Peter and James Thomson's guide, Andrei Suknev, is the founder of
Great Baikal Trail, an international organization for promotion of
local sustainable development of Lake Baikal and surrounding areas.
For more info. about this  non-profit and its volunteers' efforts, go
to:
http://www.greatbaikaltrail.org/index.html


THURSDAY, JANUARY 31ST                           HELEN THAYER -
CROSSING THE GOBI

Helen Thayer will read from "Walking the Gobi A 1600-Mile Trek Across
a Desert of Hope and Despair".  She'll talk about her and her husband
Bill's adventures as the first man and woman to walk the entire
length of almost 1,500 miles, east to west, of the Mongolian Gobi
Desert.  They persevered as they faced Siberian winds, accompanying
sand storms, heat reaching 126 degrees, scarcity of water and plenty
of scorpions.  The Thayers' time spent with the Gobi Desert's nomads
is one of many remarkable experiences described in her book.

Named "One of the Great Explorers of the 20th Century" by National
Geographic, Thayer noted that she"first heard of the Gobi as a 13
year old growing up in New Zealand. Then the Gobi was as far away as
the moon; now at 63 the dream has come full circle."

Her previous feats are impressive. In 1988, she became the first
woman to walk and ski to either pole when she trekked solo to the
Magnetic North Pole without dog sled or snowmobile. She was the first
woman and first American to circumnavigate the Magnetic North Pole.
Her amazing adventure with her beloved companion Charlie (her
Canadian Eskimo Husky) was the basis for her first book,  "Polar
Dreams."

For further information, please email/call me or access our web
Events page at: http://www.globecorner.com/events/events.html.

Thank you, in advance, for any efforts to spread the word about these
events.

Best regards,
Harriet

Harriet Carrier
The Globe Corner Bookstores
www.globecorner.com
hcarrier at gcb.com, 617-649-5700 x27

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