
Sunday, June 14
2:00 pm
McManus Room
Meet explorer, award-winning journalist and field scientist
Richard Wiese when he discusses his book
Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer. Learn everything a young explorer should know from fun with science and nature, to feats of endurance and lessons in civic responsibility. Richard will share his experiences of not only traveling around the world but also about living an outdoor life right here in Westport.
Wiese was the youngest president in The Explorers Club’s hundred-year history. He has hosted many nationally seen television shows, most recently "Exploration with Richard Wiese." He just completed filming a special series with the BBC and Discovery called "Hell on Earth." As an explorer and respected field scientist , Richard has traveled to all seven continents. He has tagged jaguars in the Yucatan jungles, expedition leader to the Northern Territory of Australia to look for basis of the Aboriginal myth of the Rainbow Serpent, team member of the largest medical expedition ever conducted on Mt. Everest, achieved the first ascent of an unclimbed mountain in Alaska and discovered 29 new life forms on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and cross country skied to the North Pole. Most recently Richard traveled to the hottest place on earth in Ethiopia to attempt to extract fragments of DNA from molten lava to look for evidence of microbial life in conditions never thought able to support life.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.