CROCODILES AND ICE

CROCODILES AND ICE is a storyteller's passage of discovery, full of high adventure and humor, about adventurer/educator/explorer Jon Turk’s journey from suburban Connecticut into Deep Wild.

Whether Jon is writing about his multiple award-winning Ellesmere Circumnavigation, his expeditions in the jungles and oceans of the Solomon Islands, the Himalayan plateau, or the mountains of northern British Columbia, he explores a Consciousness Revolution toward a personal, spiritual, and reciprocal relationship with the planet. Even as our oil-soaked, internet-crazed, consumer-oriented society rushes rapidly and recklessly into massive and catastrophic climate change.

In CROCODILES AND ICE Jon invites his readers to listen to our ancestors -- a wolf that lingers, a Siberian shaman, a Chinese bicycle nomad, a lonely Tlingit warrior laying down to die in a storm, and the landscapes themselves. Because beyond technological marvels and imagined responsibility, there lies a glorious and sustainable lifestyle that is based not on consumerism and consumption but on Deep Wild as a place of solace, sanity, and hope.

Jon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971, wrote the first environmental science textbook in North America, and continued as a writer for 40 years. He’s engaged in numerous extreme outdoor expeditions. Indeed, Jon's circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island was nominated by National Geographic as one of the top ten adventures of 2011. He has written three books chronicling his physical and spiritual passages: COLD OCEANS: Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat, and Dogsled, IN THE WAKE OF THE JOMON: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific, and RAVEN’S GIFT: A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness.