Talking With Kirsten Neuschäfer, the First Woman to Sail and Win the Golden Globe
Kirsten Neuschäfer talks about winning the nonstop, round-the-world Golden Globe race and the possibility of another circumnavigation.
Posted inBooks and Literature Exploration and Explorers Kerala (India) Khilnani, Sunil literaryguides Naipaul, V S Roy, Arundhati Rushdie, Salman Spices Tharoor, Shashi Travel and Vacations Writing and Writers
Read Your Way Through Kerala
A strip of lush land at the tip of India where spices grow wild, Kerala has long drawn the gaze of outsiders. Here’s Abraham Verghese’s guide to its literature, which nods at these influences but is very much its own.
Posted inCaves and Caverns Deaths (Obituaries) Exploration and Explorers Smith, Marion Southern States (US)
Marion Smith, the World’s Most Prolific Cave Explorer, Dies at 80
He was particularly fond of vertical caving, often dangling freely in a hundred-foot abyss on a rope no thicker than a thumb.