Please Join Us for an Evening with Author/Adventurer Jon Turk
Tuesday, March 30th, at 7 PM
The Hamilton-Wenham Community House
284 Bay Road, South Hamilton, MA
Free Admission • Refreshments • Art from the Far North
Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific Ocean to retrace the voyages of ancient people. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In a remote Siberian village, Turk met an elderly Koryak shaman named Moolynaut who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend his fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where Moolynaut was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives and spirituality. Framed by high adventure across the vast and forbidding Siberian landscape, The Raven’s Gift creates a vision of natural and spiritual realms interwoven by one man’s awakening.
Jon Turk is the author of twenty-five environmental and earth science text books and two previous adventure travel books. He co-authored the first environmental science textbook in the United States, which spearheaded the development of environmental science curricula in North America. Jon is also a world-class adventurer who has kayaked across the North Pacific, mountain biked through the Gobi desert, made the first climbing ascents of big walls on Baffin Island, and the first ski descents in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzia. Jon has chronicled his adventures in three books: Cold Oceans, In the Wake of the Jomon, and, most recently The Raven’s Gift.
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An Evening with Jon Turk
Please Join Us for an Evening with Author/Adventurer Jon Turk
Tuesday, March 30th, at 7 PM
The Hamilton-Wenham Community House
284 Bay Road, South Hamilton, MA
Free Admission • Refreshments • Art from the Far North
Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific Ocean to retrace the voyages of ancient people. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In a remote Siberian village, Turk met an elderly Koryak shaman named Moolynaut who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend his fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where Moolynaut was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives and spirituality. Framed by high adventure across the vast and forbidding Siberian landscape, The Raven’s Gift creates a vision of natural and spiritual realms interwoven by one man’s awakening.
Jon Turk is the author of twenty-five environmental and earth science text books and two previous adventure travel books. He co-authored the first environmental science textbook in the United States, which spearheaded the development of environmental science curricula in North America. Jon is also a world-class adventurer who has kayaked across the North Pacific, mountain biked through the Gobi desert, made the first climbing ascents of big walls on Baffin Island, and the first ski descents in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzia. Jon has chronicled his adventures in three books: Cold Oceans, In the Wake of the Jomon, and, most recently The Raven’s Gift.