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When you’ve traveled to over 100 countries and are obsessed with seeing rare birds, as I am, you’re bound to have strange things happen. From my start in the 1960s, long before it was cool to be traveling just to see nature and birds, I led groups of intrepid nature seekers to remote places on seven continents and the seven seas, most not accustomed to foreign visitors.
My career evolved into scouting out, designing, and leading many of the first bird, wildlife, and cultural land tours, safaris, and small boat adventures around the world. Of all the trips I’ve lead, from tented safaris to private jet tours, I’m proud to say everyone who’s traveled with me came home alive, with stories to tell, and a much larger bird list.
You can join them through my Memoir. Purchase here and I’ll send you a signed copy.
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Peter Alden, world-class tour guide leader, adventurer, naturalist, and birder, takes you through his lifelong journey in this highly engaging ‘memologue’ (memoir/travelogue). Filled with tales of near escapes worthy of any Indiana Jones movie, and illuminated with descriptions of beautiful birds, fascinating wildlife, and native cultures, this book will make you want to travel and experience these natural wonders yourself!
This is a highly personal Baedeker, bursting with accounts of worldwide experiences that are anything but generic. In it, Peter details his close, lifelong engagement with natural history – from an early childhood fascination in the 1950s, to his pioneering of many new frontiers in ecotourism worldwide (mainly in the 1970s-1980s), to more recent pursuits such as co-founding the first bioblitzes alongside E.O. Wilson.
Peter’s Travel History
I haven’t been everywhere, but I’ve come close, and brought everyone home alive.
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Recent Travels
A Wild Tanzania Adventure
(Full credit to Chris Bensly at Spark Birding https://www.sparkbirding.com/post/a-wild-tanzania-adventure) Our safari vehicle pulled over to the side of the road. At first glance, we saw the enormous flow of zebra and wildebeest herds grazing across the vast Serengeti...
Concord’s ‘unofficial town naturalist,’ Peter Alden, is still traveling the world
There’s a secret library in West Concord that you won’t find on any map or guidebook. There’s no sign and no card catalog. It’s found at the bottom of a narrow stairway in the basement of Peter Alden, Concord’s “unofficial town naturalist,” as he calls himself. Alden...
Final Walden Biodiversity Report
My final summary report on the groupings of organisms and the people who found them during Walden Biodiversity Days in 2009 and 1998 is finished and can be downloaded here (5.7 MB). These events wouldn't have been possible without hundreds of experts and helpers of...