The Explorers Journal

From vast ocean depths to the frontiers of outer space, The Explorers Journal offers firsthand reporting from those pushing the limits of knowledge and human endurance. Founded in 1904 to promote exploration “by all means possible,” The Explorers Club is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of field exploration and scientific inquiry. Among our members are leading pioneers in oceanography, mountaineering, archaeology, and the planetary and environmental sciences.

PRESIDENT’S LETTER building a better world

EDITOR’S NOTE crossroads

The Explorers Journal

FIELD NOTES

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A GIFT FROM THE GODS • a quest to restore coca to its ancestral place in Andean society

YERONISOS AND ITS ENVIRONS • 35 years of exploration in Cyprus

A GREAT WALL ODYSSEY • following in the footsteps of the intrepid William Geil

INTO THE HEART OF THE DOOMSDAY GLACIER • is it possible to throttle the Thwaites?

FORGING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE lines worth holding

HARVESTING THE WILD foraging in Sitka

BOOK REVIEWS

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WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? • GREAT MOMENTS IN EXPLORATION AS TOLD TO JIM CLASH