Jason Schoonover

An Adventurer's Seven Point Guide to Living an Interesting Life (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Jason Schoonover is often asked, 'How come you get to live such an interesting life while the rest of us got stuck with jobs, spouse, kids and mortgage? How did you do it?' A Fellow Emeritus, Stefansson Medalist, Citation of Merit awardee and on the Honor Roll of the prestigious Explorers Club, Jason lives a very interesting life. He has led over 40 expeditions in as many years, including 10 archaeological canoe adventures with Capt. Norm Baker, Thor Heyerdahl's First Mate on the Ra and Tigris reed boat voyages, as his own First Mate; 18-person dinosaur bone hunting expeditions with noted paleontologist Phil Currie as his Field Leader, one of which resulted in a major find; fixed a Sri Lankan Devil Dance shoot for Survivorman Les Stroud; explored South and Southeast Asian jungles and the Himalayas seeking anthropological collections for museums worldwide; and excavated Paleolithic caves along Thailand's River Kwai with Sir Rod Beattie which resulted in the building of a museum. He's also been charged by a bull elephant, dived on shipwrecks, produced major stage shows, and been around the world several times. His real life of adventure crossed over into fiction in the Bantam international bestselling adventure-thriller Thai Gold, and his non-fiction Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives was an award winner. In this inspirational book, he shows youoften with humorhow you can avoid digging a rut or, if you're already in one, how to climb out of it and live one too.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Schoonover
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311875495
• Artikelnr.: 70635306

Autorenporträt

Jason Schoonoverwriter, adventurer, expedition leader, ethnologist, archaeologist, paleontologist, canoeist, naturalist, photographer and Fellow Emeritus, Stefansson Medalist, Citation of Merit awardee, and on the Honor Roll of The Explorers Club, Fellow Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medalwas brought up on farms, villages and towns in Saskatchewan, Canada, and cities like Saskatoon and Vancouver. This explains why he feels equally at home canoeing in the remote north of his homeland, one of his passions, and living in mega-cities like Bangkok.

Following university (Simon Fraser, English and History, 1970, Vancouver), he launched a multi-media career as a disk jockey, and expanded into writing, directing and producing in radio, TV, stage, newspapers and magazines, including stints as a columnist. His largest stage production was writing, directing and producing Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's 80th birthday party gala in 1975, an extravaganza involving over 300 performers and personnel. He founded Schoonover Properties and invested everything in Saskatoon real estate. Since 1977, he's been gainfully unemployed and began traveling in earnest.

On his first solo around the world, stringing travel as a photo-journalist to Canadian and U.S. dailies, he discovered a new and fascinating career in Asiaanthropological collecting for museums internationally. He moved to Bangkok in 1982. This exciting lifestyle led to the publication in 1988 of his first adventure novel, The Bangkok Collection, which became the Bantam international paperback bestseller Thai Gold the following year. All his books, fiction and non-fiction, are in the adventure field.

He's been Team Leader on over 40 expeditions, including several 18-member dinosaur bone hunting forays in Alberta with renowned paleontologist Phil Currie as his Field Leaderwhich resulted in a major find; explored Asian jungles and the Himalaya piecing together ethnographic collections for museums; excavated caves in Thailand for Paleolithic finds resulting in the building of a museum; fixed the opening episode for Les Survivorman Stroud's Beyond Survival in Sri Lanka; led numerous canoe expeditions with Capt. Norm Baker, Thor Heyerdahl's First Mate on the Ra voyages across the Atlantic, as his own First Mate; and explored Thailand's abandoned WW-II River Kwai Death Railway with Sir Rodney Beattie. He's also been charged by a bull elephant...