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THE EXPLORERS CLUB LEGACY SOCIETY
edited by Milbry C. Polk
a troublesome tooth yanked out
by a fellow explorer without so
much as a word.
Rica—encounters with beasts
of the deep such as sharks,
calamities, military threats, madness,
hurricanes, and despair.
Along the way, Haslett learns
many lessons the hard way and
imparts them to us, like pearls
on the necklace of a castaway.
“Curiosity and inspiration to
discover nature’s secrets spring
from the minds of those driven
to explore. I joined The Legacy
Society to help inspire future
explorers. Join us!”
— Dr. Martin Nweeia
F o o t s t e p s o n t h e I c e :
T h e A n t a r c t i c D i a r i e s
of Stuart D. Paine,
Second Byrd Expedition
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By M. L. Paine
384 pp • Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 2007 • ISBN-10: 0826217419, ISBN-
13: 978-0826217417 • $34.95
According to Paine family lore,
22-year-old Stuart Paine, chafing
in the New York summer
heat, decided to remove his coat
while at the office. When his
boss told him to put it back on
or go to Antarctica, Paine opted
for Antarctica. Shortly thereafter
he signed on as a dog-sled
driver for Admiral Byrd’s 1933
expedition to chart the southern
part of the continent. Paine kept
detailed notes of his experiences
on the expedition, which
his daughter, M.L. Paine has edited
in Footsteps on the Ice. The
result is charming. The reader
is able to virtually take every
step with Paine, from arduous
1,100-kilometer treks to having
Voyage of the Manteño:
The Education of a
Modern-Day Expeditioner
By John Haslett
336 pages • New York: St. Martin’s Press,
2006 • ISBN-10: 0312324324, ISBN-13:
978-0312324322 • $25.95
Inspired by his hero, Thor
Heyerdahl, John Haslett decided
in 1993 to make his own
balsa raft and attempt to recreate
the sailing feats of the
ancient coastal Ecuadorians,
by sailing from that coast all the
way to Hawaii. Haslett ended up
with two balsa raft expeditions,
learned a tremendous amount
about ancient sea craft design
as well as human nature in what
turned into a harrowing series of
near disasters. Odysseus-like
Haslett endured shipwreck—
in Panama and in Costa
Top Secret Tourism
By Harry Helms
277 pp • Los Angeles: Feral House, 2007 •
ISBN: 978-1932595239 • $14
To explore is to go out to discover
and investigate places of
which little is known. In Harry
Helms’ new book, Top Secret
Tourism, those places are U.S.
military installations. Right up
front he warns the intrepid that
conducting such exploration is
probably illegal and just might
get you into lots of trouble.
Some like Nevada’s Area 51
are shrouded in mystery and
associated with unexplained
Robert J. Atwater
Capt. Norman L. Baker
Barbara Ballard
Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.
Samuel B. Ballen
Mark Gregory Bayuk
Daniel A. Bennett
John R. Bockstoce, D.Phil.
Bjorn G. Bolstad
Capt. Bruce M. Bongar, Ph.D.
Garrett R. Bowden
Harry Davis Brooks
Lt. Col. Jewell Richard Browder*
August “Augie” Brown
John C.D. Bruno
Lee R. Bynum*
Virginia Castagnola Hunter
Julianne M. Chase, Ph.D.
Maj. Gen. Arthur W. Clark,
USAF (Ret)
Leslie E. Colby
Jonathan M. Conrad
Catherine Nixon Cooke
Constance Difede
Mr. & Mrs. James Donovan
Col. William H. Dribben, USA
(Ret)
Sylvia A. Earle, Ph.D.
Lee M. Elman
Michael L. Finn
Robert L. Fisher, Ph.D.
John W. Flint
Kay Foster
James M. Fowler
W. Roger Fry
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
George W. Gowen
Randall A. Greene
Jean Charles Michel Guite
Capt. Robert “Rio” Hahn
Allan C. Hamilton
Scott W. Hamilton
O. Winston “Bud” Hampton,
Ph.D.
Brian P. Hanson
James H. Hardy, M.D.
Judith Heath
Robert A. Hemm
Gary “Doc” Hermalyn, Ph.D.
Lotsie Hermann Holton
Charles B. Huestis
Robert Edgar Hyman
J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
Robert M. Jackson, M.D.
Kenneth M. Kamler, M.D.
Prince Joli Kansil
Lorie M.L. Karnath
Anthony G. Kehle, III
Anne B. Keiser
Kathryn Kiplinger
Thomas R. Kuhns, M.D.
Hannah B. Kurzweil
Carl C. Landegger
Michael S. Levin
Florence Lewisohn Trust*
J. Roland Lieber
Michael Luzich
James E. Lockwood, Jr.*
Jose Loeb
John H. Loret, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Margaret D. Lowman, Ph.D.
Robert H. Malott
Leslie Mandel
Robert E. McCarthy*
George E. McCown
Capt. Alfred S. McLaren,
Ph.D., USN (Ret)
Lorus T. Milne, Ph.D.
James M. Mitchelhill*
Arnold H. Neis
Walter P. Noonan
Martin T. Nweeia, D.D.S.
Dr. John W. Olsen
Kathleen Parker
Alese & Morton Pechter
William E. Phillips
Prof Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D.
Roland R. Puton
Dimitri Rebikoff*
John T. Reilly, Ph.D.
Adrian Richards, Ph.D.
Bruce E. Rippeteau, Ph.D.
Merle Greene Robertson, Ph.D.
Otto E. Roethenmund
James Beeland Rogers, Jr.
Faanya & Robert Rose
Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr.
Gene M. Rurka
Avery B. Russell
David J. Saul, Ph.D.
Willets H. Sawyer, III
A. Harvey Schreter
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Segur
Theodore M. Siouris
William J. L. Sladen, M.D., D.Phil.
Susan Deborah Smilow
Sally A. Spencer
Pamela L. Stephany
Ronnie & Allan Streichler
Arthur O. Sulzberger
Vernon F. Taylor, III
Mitchell Terk, M.D.
C. Frederick Thompson, II
James “Buddy” Thompson
Marc Verstraete Van de Weyer
Robert C. Vaughn
Ann Marks Volkwein
Leonard A. Weakley, Jr.
William G. Wellington, Ph.D.
Robert H. Whitby
Julius Wile*
Holly Williams
Francis A. Wodal*
* Deceased
As long as there is The Explorers Club,
your name will be listed as a member of the Legacy Society.
THE LEGACY SOCIETY COMMITTEE
Theodore M. Siouris (Chairman), Robert J. Atwater,
George W. Gowen, Scott W. Hamilton, Brian P. Hanson,
Kathryn Kiplinger, William E. Phillips
Since 2000, Dr. Martin Nweeia has lead seven expeditions to
the High Arctic to unravel the evolution and function of the
narwhal’s fabled tusk.
For information
and to join us:
The Explorers Club,
46 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
212-628-8383
www.explorers.org