John Geiger Contributes Essay to Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives

John Geiger has contributed an essay, ‘I was two people in two places’, to Jason Schoonover’s remarkable new book, Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives. The collection, to be published by Rocky Mountain Books in September 2007, includes essays from a Who's Who of international exploration, including Meave and Louise Leakey, Buzz Aldrin, Robert Ballard, balloonists Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, “Lucy” discoverer Don Johanson, Jack Horner, Sue Hendrickson, Jean-Michel Cousteau, the Ra's Capt. Norman Baker, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, George Bass, Eugenie Clark, Trieste's Don Walsh, paleontologist Philip Currie, naturalist Robert Bateman, Colonel John Blashford-Snell and Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes. Each contributor relates those indelible moments in their youth when the dreams that launched their remarkable lives were born.

Jason Schoonover is the author of the adventure thriller Thai Gold, which sold 125,000 copies for Bantam internationally in paperback and for Seal nationally in hardbound as The Bangkok Collection. The work has sold a further 5,000 for Asia Books in Thailand, where it and its sequel, Opium Dream, have been on the shelves for four years. Thai Gold is also currently republished as Nepal Gold in Nepal and India by Pilgrims Books. Jason’s most recent adventure thriller is The Manila Galleon. He has been widely published throughout North America since 1973, mainly as a travel writer in newspapers and magazines, including a stint as a columnist. Jason Schoonover was elected a Fellow of The Explorers Club in 1986 and currently makes his home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Bangkok, Thailand.

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"Jason Schoonover's Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives casts brilliant light on the great and mysterious human impulse to explore, capturing as if in amber that moment when individual dreams of discovery were born. It is at once a compelling, sometimes startling, glimpse into the minds of some of our greatest explorers, and an unrivalled catalogue of derring-do."

- John Geiger, author of Frozen In Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition