EVENT- Walking the Gobi Event, Globe Corner Bookstore, Harvard Square, Jan. 31

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EVENT- Walking the Gobi Event, Globe Corner Bookstore, Harvard Square, Jan. 31

Posted by: Maya Peterson <mayaworld@gmail.com>

The Globe Corner Bookstores
Adventure Travel Lecture Series

Event Summary:

Thursday, January 31st

Helen Thayer - "Walking the Gobi"

Helen Thayer will read from "Walking the Gobi". Thayer has been named
"One of the Great Explorers of the 20th Century" by National Geographic.

Information for the Above Event:

Location: First Parish Church, Mass. Ave at Church Street, Harvard Square
Accessibility: Wheelchair Accessible
Time: 6 p.m.
Admission: Free
Reservations: 617-649-5700 x21 or events@gcb.com
Addit. Info: www.globecorner.com

Detailed Event Description:

Helen Thayer will read from "Walking the Gobi:" She'll talk about her
and her husband Bill's adventures as the first man and woman to walk
the entire length (almost 1,500 miles), east to west, of the Mongolian
Gobi Desert. They persevered as they faced Siberian winds,
accompanying sand storms, heat reaching 126 degrees, scarcity of water
and plenty of scorpions. The Thayers' time spent with the Gobi
Desert's nomads is one of many remarkable experiences described in her book.

Named "One of the Great Explorers of the 20th Century" by National
Geographic, Thayer noted that she"first heard of the Gobi as a 13 year
old growing up in New Zealand. Then the Gobi was as far away as the
moon; now at 63 the dream has come full circle."

Her previous feats are impressive. In 1988, she became the first woman
to walk and ski to either pole when she trekked solo to the Magnetic
North Pole without dog sled or snowmobile. She was the first woman and
first American to circumnavigate the Magnetic North Pole. Her amazing
adventure with her beloved companion Charlie (her Canadian Eskimo
Husky) was the basis for her first book, "Polar Dreams."

For further information, please email/call me or access our web Events
page at:

http://www.globecorner.com/events/events.html.

Harriet Carrier
The Globe Corner Bookstores
www.globecorner.com
hcarrier@gcb.com, 617-649-5700 x27t

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