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For almost forty years I have wandered through exotic and remote landscapes and returned to write and speak about my adventures, the people, and the environments that I have been lucky enough to encounter.
I was trained as a scientist and in the beginning I merely considered my travels to be a series of physical challenges to overcome and goals to attain.
That was a long time ago.
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Latest Release
My new book, The Raven's Gift, will be released January 19, 2010 by St. Martin's Press. |
In Siberia, the harshest of lands, I met Moolynaut, a shaman of the Koryak people. Through her teachings, and the patient conversations of many men and women, I began to see the world as our ancestors saw it. This website and my new book, "The Raven's Gift" tell the story of my search for physical and spiritual healing among the people of forgotten seas and tundra
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Moolynaut was born in a skin tent on the Siberian tundra during the reign of Czar Nicholas IV. She not only survived, but maintained her spirituality through the Bolshevik revolution, the entire rise and fall of the Soviet Empire, and the bandito capitalism of Perestroika. She asked me to tell her story, which is the story of all indigenous people, from the jungles of the Amazon and Melanesia to the high Arctic. |
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Some Things Have To Be Seen To Be Believed
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But Other Things Have to Be Believed to be Seen
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Some Things ARE
Even if Not Believed or Seen
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"In the olden days, when the world was new, the first people talked with the animals and danced with the walrus on the bottom of the sea. The walrus liked the people and always offered them food. No one ever went hungry. Those times are past, but....."
From: Cold Oceans: Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat, and Dogsled
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