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Jon Turk is the author of four adventure books: Cold Oceans, In the Wake of the Jomon, The Raven's Gift, and Crocodiles and Ice. In 2012, he was nominated by National Geographic as one of the top ten adventurers of the year. He has kayaked around Cape Horn and across the North Pacific from Japan to Alaska, mountain biked across the northern Gobi in Mongolia, made first climbing ascents of big walls on Baffin Island and first ski descents in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzia, and in 2011 circumnavigated Ellesmere Island. During extended travel in northeast Siberia, his worldview was altered by Moolynaut, a Siberian shaman. Jon splits his time between Darby, Montana and Fernie.
Turk's adventure narrative about tracking a lion on the unforgiving savannah with a Samburu headman Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu (RMB $30) explores the aboriginal wisdom that endowed our Stone Age ancestors with the power to survive -- and how, since then, our culture has often been hijacked and distorted within our urban, scientific, oil-using world.
BOOKS:
Cold Oceans
In the Wake of the Jomon
The Raven's Gift
Crocodiles and Ice
Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu (RMB, 2021) $30 9781771604734
[BCBW 2021]
Turk's adventure narrative about tracking a lion on the unforgiving savannah with a Samburu headman Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu (RMB $30) explores the aboriginal wisdom that endowed our Stone Age ancestors with the power to survive -- and how, since then, our culture has often been hijacked and distorted within our urban, scientific, oil-using world.
BOOKS:
Cold Oceans
In the Wake of the Jomon
The Raven's Gift
Crocodiles and Ice
Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu (RMB, 2021) $30 9781771604734
[BCBW 2021]
