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BREAKING NEWS!! |
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Jonathan
Waterman's Arctic Refuge – Sept 18 – January
27, 2007
The exhibit
will open in Washington DC at the National Geographic Society Grosvenor
Auditorium on Sept 18 and run through January 27. This special event--including
over 1000 square feet of photographic panels--will coincide with
Wilderness Week on capitol hill, with people coming from all
over the country to address their congressional representatives
about saving ANWR from oil development and global warming.
To highlight this exhibit, Jon, the renowned adventurer, will
lecture at the National Geographic Society on September 25 and at
many other Wolfman venues throughout the country.
Also, premiering on September 26 television (check local listings
on PBS and National Geographic
channels) see his Wild Chronicles show about Jon's
Arctic trip with the legendary field biologist, George Schaller.
Finally, Jon's feature stories (with extensive photographs) about
the Arctic crisis will also appear in September 2007 issues of Patagonia,
National Geographic Adventure magazine, and Wildlife
Conservation magazine.
See the recent NPR morning edition interview interview
about his Arctic work at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5582159
and at:
http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows4.shtml |
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Jon
is internationally renowned for his Northern adventures, and for
his award-winning books and films-replete with breath-taking photography
and candid narratives. His seventy-minute programs include slides
and video; as an accompaniment to his evening programs, he often
lectures in college classrooms (journalism/recreation/wilderness/environmental). |
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Global Warming:
Oil Versus Wilderness & Climate Change in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge
Jon's
newly released, award-winning paperback about the ANWR
controversy.
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The
"Oil Versus Wilderness" program has been updated
for 2007 to show the findings from an expedition Jon
led, with the world famous conservationist, Dr. George
Schaller, to study climate change in northern Alaska.
As the recipient of a National Geographic grant, the
author traveled with three grad students and Dr. Schaller,
visiting with other scientists, Native Americans, and
traveling throughout the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(ANWR) to document the startling effects of global warming—to
be released by the National Geographic in fall 2007
on TV and in various magazine articles.
The lecture was also derived from Jon's teaching an
accredited course for the University of Alaska on this
subject, to determine the esthetic values behind wilderness
preservation versus northern industry. Since ANWR was
first created in 1960, oil companies have repeatedly
lobbied Congress to open this most pristine sanctuary
to drilling. As a veteran of a half dozen trips into
the remote, 19-million-acre ANWR-bearing witness to
the incredible caribou migration and a cornucopia of
wildlife found nowhere else on the continent –Jon
shares both slides and film, while telling an educational
and insightful story about the potential cultural/ environmental
impacts of drilling contrasted with the economic benefits
of oil development, and complicated by global warming. |
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Arctic
Culture: Odyssey Among the Inuit
Here
is Jon's ten-month journey by skis, kayak and dogsled, 2,200
miles across the Northwest Passage. On its surface level,
his carefully photographed and self-videoed narrative details
near misses with bears, a desperate off-shore capsize in ice
water, and how he dealt with several three-week periods without
any human contact. Yet by passing through these mere physical
obstacles-speaking with self-effacing humor and cerebral insight-he
discovers the importance of an old shaman saying, "That
all true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings
of men, out in the great solitudes, and is only to be attained
through privation and suffering." Through fastidious
research about both environment and the Inuit (or Eskimo)
peoples' assimilation, this adventure story is rendered into
a compassionate anthropological portrait of a culture in transition.
This spiritual and uplifting quest is based on his critically
acclaimed book, Arctic Crossing (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).
(See
left) Jon's 2001 book, Arctic Crossing,
details his 2,200 mile journey across the
Northwest Passage by kayak, skis, & dogsled.
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Surviving
Denali
Jon
is a world authority on the 20,320 foot Mt. McKinley. While on that
mountain, and through his books-Surviving Denali, High Alaska, and
In the Shadow of Denali-he has been credited with saving lives and
reducing accidents. In his lecture program "Surviving Denali,"
he presents a thrilling history behind North America's highest mountain,
and his own experiences there as a rescue ranger and during his
incredible winter ascent of the difficult Cassin Ridge. He delivers
this inspiring program with characteristic humility, and culminates
with a film excerpt of his epic, 120-mile traverse of the mountain,
disdaining aircraft support and using the expedition as a metaphor
for how one can safely travel through the wilderness with respect
and self-sufficiency. |
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More
on Jon Waterman...
Jon's nine books have been published in several languages and he is the
only author whose books have twice won the Banff International Book Festival
"Best Adventure Travel" award. He has been presented with A
National Park Service Special Achievement Award (for his rescue work on
McKinley), the American Alpine Club's Literary Award, and an honorary
member for life of Phi Kappa Phi. Jon's television documentary films-The
Logan Challenge, Surviving Denali, Odyssey Among the Inuit-have aired
on PBS, ESPN, and the Outdoor Life Network. |
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REVIEWS
OF JON'S PROGRAMS |
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"Spellbinding.
In all my years as a program coordinator, Jonathan's presentation ranked
among the very best I've seen. We'll have him back soon."
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Mesa State College
"After
this moving presentation to several hundred university students, not one
audience member left, and Jon stayed an extra hour answering questions.
An excellent and educational show."
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University of Wisconsin/La Crosse
"His
audience came away inspired by impressions of beautiful landscapes and
how our natural world can be protected and preserved."
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Weber State University
"Jon
Waterman brought adventure, intellect, education, and entertainmentƒspiced
with humor and witƒto SUNY, attracting one of the larger audiences of
recent years. Faculty and students alike responded to his thoughtfulness,
while his desire to interact with students sets him apart as a speaker."
-SUNY,
Plattsburgh, NY |
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