Americans seem to know less and care less than ever about the natural world in their environs. As evidenced by the popularity of “action-oriented†nature shows and films about far away places, they are more interested in the cats of the African plains, the...
From July 17 to September 10, 2006 I was bird lecturer and part-time charismatic megafauna spotter on Quark Expedition’s Kapitan Klebnikov from the Chukotka Peninsula to the Thule area of NW Greenland. We traversed the NW Passage south of Victoria Island, then...
