C6 - Sunday News, March 15, 1981

I received a letter
from a reader a while
back asking me to
consider doing some
columns on “more than
the usual adventure” —
meaning stuff like.
rafting down the

Amazon or living with eee

the headhunters in

Equador. Alas, though:

I respect and adimire
people who go off and-
do these things, I can’t
swim and the’ highest
mountain I’ve ‘climbed.
rests on the floor beside -
my typewriter. Besides,
it’s far more dangerous
dodging the traffic in
Buenos Aires or the
purse-snatchers in
Rome.

My adventurous reader
kindly enclosed copies- of
four publications which he
_ has_ found particularly in-
teresting for platining

But I'm staying home!

guiding or accommodation
and a travel information
service perhaps unavailable
through other agencies.
Recommended by Great
Expeditions in Vancouver.

Each of these publications

is.worth having a look at and

something out of ‘the: or- a :

dinary: 8 4

ALASKA: TRAVEL -
ADVENTURES:
. 499 Hamilton Ave., Suite
212, Palo Alto, CA 94301
(I've no idea.of-the cost but -
_ Since, “the. magazine... is~

published for WIEN”. AIR
ALASKA. it might “possibly
be free) -: ue
ADVENTURE TRAVEL

Published ‘bimonthly by
Ziff-Davis ‘Publishing Co.,
P.O. Box 10028 Des Moines,
Iowa. 50348. Subscription is
$18 yearly (US). os
EARTHWATCH NEWS

The joumalof Earthwatch,
a __ scientific_ exploration
foundation which funds and
staffs expeditions all over the
world. To obtain a member-
ship which includes three
issues of the journal, two
catalogues of upcoming
ventures and eligibility to
participate in expeditions, it
will cost you $10 a year.
Write Earthwatch, Box 127,
10 Juniper Road, Belmont,
MA 02178.
GLOBE

The journal of the Globe-
trotters Club, head office
address BCM/Roving,
London, Eng. WC! V6XX.
Membership is $12 (US) a
year and entitles you to a

Newsletter every two
months, a meeting every
month in London or

wherever there is a_ local
group in other parts of the
world, a world directory of
members — many offering

from $779

due Nov. 01, 1961.

Price includes 14 nights hotel, hotel tax, air-flight on Western
Airlines, transters to/trom hotel and Lei Greetings. $200.00
per person deposit refunded within 7 days of booking. Balance

Book earty Christmas sold out early last
year and will do so again this year.

, j 11 39 Lonsdale, N.Van.
10507 K.Geo. Hwy., Surrey 980-0321

you may be able to look at
them in the library before

you, plunk down the dollars

for a subscription.

I particularly - enjoyed —
“Globe” as it is more forthe’ -

“average | traveller (like me!)

wha. doesn’t ‘get too .en- |

thusiastic about lunching

with the head hunters. It has _

a nice “homey™ touch as the
-afticles are written by
members. about their own
travels. To give you some
idea, one author described
her swim in the Red Sea as
“just dreamy”.

I had a chat with
Lawrence Buser, editor of
Great Expeditions who told
me about a Vancouver based
company, “Ecosummer”,

that arranges some highly

-HAWAII—

CHRISTMAS 1981

Based on double occupancy at the
Royal Continental.

Departures: Friday - Dec 11.18. and 26 (14 NIGHTS)
Saturday, Dec 12.19, and 26 (14 NIGHTS)
Sunday -Dec 13, 20, and 27 (14 NIGHTS). |

‘Chris Harris, outlined plans

‘Using sailboats, they will

recommended forays into
the wilds of B.C.
Director of Ecosummer,

for an eleven-day photog-
raphy expedition to the
Queen Charlotte Islands,
guided by a_ professional
photographer and a marine~ }
biologist. The cost (from
Sandspit) including the
airfare to camp on _ the
Charlottes is $775. No
photography skill is required
— they'll teach you.

For a complete brochure
of this and other tours,
including Manning,
Garibaldi and Spatsize

arrangments will be in the
National Parks, write:

$1600 ballpark. You can call
224-7610 for further in-

Ecosummer formation on either sub-
1666 Duranleau St. scribing to the publication or
Granville Island Market Participating in upcoming
Vancouver, V6H 3S4 tours.

Phone: 669-7741 And, if you’re heading for

ee Equador, please give my
Great Expeditions is also regards to the headhunters.
planning a* number of ad- :
venture tours. One, in we
January 1982, will take 15 aihot
while you wait
North Shore Darkroom

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