In the introduction, Burns explains his thesis that adventure travel can mean any kind of travel, as long as it challenges the traveler: "There are two definitions that most of us from the latter 20th century/early 21st century agree upon when it comes to adventure. The first is that we generally think of adventure as having to be outdoors, preferably in a wilderness setting. The other thing about adventure is that we generally associate it with an activity that can be life-threatening, where someone has the potential to be seriously injured or die. Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language [1962 edition] defines it in about five different ways, most of which center around taking risks, i.e. "1. the encountering of danger," and "2. an exciting and dangerous un-dertaking, etc. " Adventure can be much more subtle. Adventure, I believe, should focus more on Webster’s third definition: "an unusual, stirring experience, often of romantic nature."
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A collection of 13 of Burns’s most popular travel essays, The Shoes of Kilimanjaro & Other Oddventure Travel Stories is filled with entertaining stories about adventure travel in Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australia, Great Britain, and the Caribbean. Each essay offers Burns's unique, often weird, views about the earth, society, and human achievement (of lack thereof).
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"The P.J. O'Rourke of adventure travel!" -- Royal Robbins, climber/entrepreneur
"Wonderful! Sick! The genuine article!" -- Jon Waterman, author/adventurer
"[Burns is a] ... brassy and intersting [writer]" -- Ed Douglas, in Ascent
"Wonderful! Sick! The genuine article!" -- Jon Waterman, author/adventurer
"[Burns is a] ... brassy and intersting [writer]" -- Ed Douglas, in Ascent
From the Author
"Really, this collection is a pretty simple set of essays about places and situations, but it'll make readers think and hopefully appreciate all of life, really, as an adventure," said Burns. "And be-cause this book has been produced as a limited edition, each of the first printing's 500 copies are numbered and signed by the author."
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Cameron M. Burns is Communications Director at CLEER. Before that he served as Senior Editor at Rocky Mountain Institute. During his tenure at RMI, he also served as Corporate Communications Manager for the World Green Building Council during 2004-05 (www.worldgbc.org).
Mr. Burns has been writing about environmental, green architecture, energy, and sustainability issues for more than twenty years as a reporter/correspondent with various newspapers and as a contributing editor with numerous magazines. His essays, articles, op-eds, features, blogs, and other material on "green" issues have been featured in, among others, the Times of London, Newsweek, the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, the Albuquerque Journal, the High Country News, the Aspen Daily News, the Aspen Times, the Sangre de Cristo Chronicle, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Ouray Plaindealer, Solar Today, Nikkei Ecology (Japan), The World & I, Ecos (the quarterly magazine of CSIRO (Australia)), Indian Architect & Builder, Yes! magazine, and many others. His work has been featured on numerous websites (including energypulse.net, treehugger.com, Yahoo! Green, www.energybulletin.net, www.sustainablebusiness.com, www.changereport.com, greenbiz.com, www.greenerdesign.com, www.climatebiz.com, www.greenclips.com, and greenerbuildings.com).
Mr. Burns holds a bachelor's degree in environmental design from the University of Colorado (1987) and has done graduate studies in environmental management at Harvard (2004-06) as well as graduate work in film and television production at the University of California (1987-88).
He is a coauthor of Building Without Borders (New Society Publishers, 2004), Writing, Etc. (Colorado Authors League, 2006), and Contact: Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking (University of Nevada Press, 2008). He contributed several entries to Grolier's Encyclopedias in the mid-1990s, and his work on sustainability issues has been published by a wide variety of governments, corporations, and non-profit entities--ranging from PG&E to the State of Oregon to the National Park Service to the Green Building Alliance to various universities. He has been interviewed and/or quoted by outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to MSNBC.
In his spare time he writes books about the outdoors, travel, and adventure--to date more than two-dozen have been published. His awards include thirty national (U.S.) and regional awards for writing (including the North American Association of Travel Journalists' 2002 Book of the Year award, the Grand Prize at the 1998 Banff Mountain Book Festival, "finalist" in the 2004 Banff Mountain Book Festival) and the 2004 Colorado Book Awards; four (Apex and Communicator) awards for corporate communications; three regional photography awards; one graphic design award.
He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (www.nasw.org), the Outdoor Writer's Guild (UK), the Colorado Authors' League, and the American Alpine Club, for whom he is Associate Editor of the American Alpine Journal.
Mr. Burns has been writing about environmental, green architecture, energy, and sustainability issues for more than twenty years as a reporter/correspondent with various newspapers and as a contributing editor with numerous magazines. His essays, articles, op-eds, features, blogs, and other material on "green" issues have been featured in, among others, the Times of London, Newsweek, the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, the Albuquerque Journal, the High Country News, the Aspen Daily News, the Aspen Times, the Sangre de Cristo Chronicle, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Ouray Plaindealer, Solar Today, Nikkei Ecology (Japan), The World & I, Ecos (the quarterly magazine of CSIRO (Australia)), Indian Architect & Builder, Yes! magazine, and many others. His work has been featured on numerous websites (including energypulse.net, treehugger.com, Yahoo! Green, www.energybulletin.net, www.sustainablebusiness.com, www.changereport.com, greenbiz.com, www.greenerdesign.com, www.climatebiz.com, www.greenclips.com, and greenerbuildings.com).
Mr. Burns holds a bachelor's degree in environmental design from the University of Colorado (1987) and has done graduate studies in environmental management at Harvard (2004-06) as well as graduate work in film and television production at the University of California (1987-88).
He is a coauthor of Building Without Borders (New Society Publishers, 2004), Writing, Etc. (Colorado Authors League, 2006), and Contact: Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking (University of Nevada Press, 2008). He contributed several entries to Grolier's Encyclopedias in the mid-1990s, and his work on sustainability issues has been published by a wide variety of governments, corporations, and non-profit entities--ranging from PG&E to the State of Oregon to the National Park Service to the Green Building Alliance to various universities. He has been interviewed and/or quoted by outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to MSNBC.
In his spare time he writes books about the outdoors, travel, and adventure--to date more than two-dozen have been published. His awards include thirty national (U.S.) and regional awards for writing (including the North American Association of Travel Journalists' 2002 Book of the Year award, the Grand Prize at the 1998 Banff Mountain Book Festival, "finalist" in the 2004 Banff Mountain Book Festival) and the 2004 Colorado Book Awards; four (Apex and Communicator) awards for corporate communications; three regional photography awards; one graphic design award.
He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (www.nasw.org), the Outdoor Writer's Guild (UK), the Colorado Authors' League, and the American Alpine Club, for whom he is Associate Editor of the American Alpine Journal.
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I picked this book up last summer as an "airplane book" for an overseas trip. I ended up reading it three times during that trip, and enjoyed it hugely. "The Shoes of Kilimanjaro" is a great story about footwear... most especially about the footwear worn by climbing porters & guides on Mt Kilimanjaro. Imagine carrying a 50 lb duffel bag on your head, up a 19,000' mountain, wearing flip-flops and old Adidas knockoffs! Also highly entertaining is "Touching the 'Roid" (you can guess what that's about!), and "In Patagonian Therapy," and "I Dreamed of African Lions."Pick up a copy of this great book and enjoy!!
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